Tree, Isabella  , 1964- <br/><br/>
Sliced Iguana  : travels in unknown Mexico 
/ Isabella Tree 
 - London  : Hamish Hamilton  , c2001. 
 - xi, 316 p.  : 1 map  ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780241140512 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002416926 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Tree, Isabella , 1964- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Mexico---Description and travel<br/>Mexico---Social life and customs
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F1216.5  / .T74 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>LAS 917.204 TRE