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