Skulls to the living, bread to the dead : [the day of the dead in Mexico and beyond] /
Brandes, Stanley H.
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.
Subtitle from cover.
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.
1405152478 (hardback : alk. paper) 1405152486 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781405152471 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781405152488 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006004999
All Souls' Day.
All Souls' Day--Mexico.
Mexico--Social life and customs.
Mexico--Religious life and customs.
GT4995.A4 / B73 2006
394.266
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.
Subtitle from cover.
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.
1405152478 (hardback : alk. paper) 1405152486 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781405152471 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781405152488 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006004999
All Souls' Day.
All Souls' Day--Mexico.
Mexico--Social life and customs.
Mexico--Religious life and customs.
GT4995.A4 / B73 2006
394.266