Home altars of Mexico
Salvo, Dana
Home altars of Mexico / photographs by Dana Salvo ; volume editor, Ramón A. Gutiérrez ; essays by Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Salvatore Scalora, and William H. Beezley ; afterword by Amalia Mesa-Bains - 1st edetion - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , c1997 - 138 p. : illus. ; 23 cm.
Preface / Dana Salvo -- Introduction / Ramón A. Gutiérrez -- Conjuring the holy: Mexican domestic altars / Ramón A. Gutiérrez -- Home altars: private reflections of public life / William H. Beezley -- Flowers and sugar skulls for the spirits of the dead / Salvatore Scalora -- Afterword / Amalia Mesa-Bains.
These private shrines not only have profound personal and familial meaning, but they also reflect the vitality of Mexico's spiritual practices.
English.
9780826317858
Household shrines---Mexico
Indians of Mexico---Religion
Christian shrines---Mexico
Altars---Mexico
Mexico---Religious life and customs
BL2530.M4 / G88 1997
726 SAL
Home altars of Mexico / photographs by Dana Salvo ; volume editor, Ramón A. Gutiérrez ; essays by Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Salvatore Scalora, and William H. Beezley ; afterword by Amalia Mesa-Bains - 1st edetion - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , c1997 - 138 p. : illus. ; 23 cm.
Preface / Dana Salvo -- Introduction / Ramón A. Gutiérrez -- Conjuring the holy: Mexican domestic altars / Ramón A. Gutiérrez -- Home altars: private reflections of public life / William H. Beezley -- Flowers and sugar skulls for the spirits of the dead / Salvatore Scalora -- Afterword / Amalia Mesa-Bains.
These private shrines not only have profound personal and familial meaning, but they also reflect the vitality of Mexico's spiritual practices.
English.
9780826317858
Household shrines---Mexico
Indians of Mexico---Religion
Christian shrines---Mexico
Altars---Mexico
Mexico---Religious life and customs
BL2530.M4 / G88 1997
726 SAL
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