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Digging the Days of the Dead : a reading of Mexico's Días de muertos / Juanita Garciagodoy

By:

Garciagodoy, Juanita, , 1952-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado , c1998.Description: xviii, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780870815904

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DDC classification:

LAS 394.266 GAR

LOC classification:

GT4995.A4 G37 1998

Summary: 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.

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Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 394.266 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		016290

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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.

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