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Skulls to the living, bread to the dead : [the day of the dead in Mexico and beyond] / Stanley Brandes.

By: Publication details: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.Description: xi, 217 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1405152478 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1405152486 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781405152471 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9781405152488 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 394.266 22
LOC classification:
  • GT4995.A4 B73 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
List(s) this item appears in: Holiday Foods Through The Nations
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks GT4995 .A4 B73 2006 1 Available 33039001013571

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.

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