Brandes, Stanley

Skulls to the living, bread to the dead : [the day of the dead in Mexico and beyond] / Stanley Brandes - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub. , 2006. - xi, 217 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-210) and index.

The Day of the Dead, problems and paradoxes -- The sweetness of death -- Skulls and skeletons -- Tourism and the state -- The poetics of death -- The Day of the Dead and Halloween -- Teaching the Day of the Dead -- Creativity and community -- Mexican views of death.

9781405152488

2006004999


All Soul's Day----Mexico
Day of the Dead---Mexico


Mexico---Social life and customs
Mexico----Religious life and customs

GT4995.A4 / B73 2006

394.266 BRA