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Sliced Iguana : travels in unknown Mexico / Isabella Tree

By:

Tree, Isabella, , 1964-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Hamish Hamilton , c2001.Description: xi, 316 p. : 1 map ; 24 cmISBN:

9780241140512

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DDC classification:

LAS 917.204 TRE

LOC classification:

F1216.5 .T74 2001

Summary: Behind the facade of sombreros and tequila, tourist traps and holiday resorts, there lies a different Mexico. In Sliced Iguana, Isabella Tree explores a country of extremes and contradictions. In a land shaped by machismo she enters a town controlled by arm-wrestling matriarchs and party-mad transvestities. In war-torn Chiapas shamans worship Mayan gods inside Catholic churches, conducting exorcisms with Pepsi. At a graveside vigil on the Night of the Dead, she encounters the last delicate vestige of a pre-Columbian cult of the spirits. With a group of Huichol Indians she participates in rituals using peyote. Her narrative threads the brightly colored history of Mexico and tells the stories of the people that have defined its fractured past and will shape its furture.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 917.204 TRE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		013917

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Behind the facade of sombreros and tequila, tourist traps and holiday resorts, there lies a different Mexico. In Sliced Iguana, Isabella Tree explores a country of extremes and contradictions. In a land shaped by machismo she enters a town controlled by arm-wrestling matriarchs and party-mad transvestities. In war-torn Chiapas shamans worship Mayan gods inside Catholic churches, conducting exorcisms with Pepsi. At a graveside vigil on the Night of the Dead, she encounters the last delicate vestige of a pre-Columbian cult of the spirits. With a group of Huichol Indians she participates in rituals using peyote. Her narrative threads the brightly colored history of Mexico and tells the stories of the people that have defined its fractured past and will shape its furture.

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