Digging the Days of the Dead : a reading of Mexico's Días de muertos
Garciagodoy, Juanita , 1952-
Digging the Days of the Dead : a reading of Mexico's Días de muertos / Juanita Garciagodoy - Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado , c1998. - xviii, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-328) and index.
A study of the annual Mexican celebration in which the dead are the guests of honor. Garciagodoy (Spanish, Macalester College) depicts various aspects of the celebration--including Prehispanic and Spanish Catholic traces on its development--and describes its changing place in contemporary Mexico. She also looks in detail at differences in attitudes towards death in Mexico and the US. Includes 96 b&w photographs and a 16 page-color insert.
9780870815904
98028489
All Soul's Day----Mexico
Mexico---Social life and customs
GT4995.A4 / G37 1998
LAS 394.266 GAR
Digging the Days of the Dead : a reading of Mexico's Días de muertos / Juanita Garciagodoy - Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado , c1998. - xviii, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-328) and index.
A study of the annual Mexican celebration in which the dead are the guests of honor. Garciagodoy (Spanish, Macalester College) depicts various aspects of the celebration--including Prehispanic and Spanish Catholic traces on its development--and describes its changing place in contemporary Mexico. She also looks in detail at differences in attitudes towards death in Mexico and the US. Includes 96 b&w photographs and a 16 page-color insert.
9780870815904
98028489
All Soul's Day----Mexico
Mexico---Social life and customs
GT4995.A4 / G37 1998
LAS 394.266 GAR
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