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