Normal view MARC view ISBD view

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

Subject(s):

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.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 394.266 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		016290

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.