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Digging The Days Of The Dead
by Juanita Garciagodo
University Press of Colorado, 1998
Cloth: 978-0-87081-499-0 | Paper: 978-0-87081-590-4
Library of Congress Classification GT4995.A4G37 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 394.266
Cloth: 978-0-87081-499-0 | Paper: 978-0-87081-590-4
Library of Congress Classification GT4995.A4G37 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 394.266
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Color Plates
- Acknowledgments
- 1
- The Dead as Guests of Honor
- A Family Reunion, National Affirmation
- How People Celebrate
- La Ofrenda
- Hanging out With the Dead
- Calaveras
- Public Offerings, a Politicized Catrina
- Ritual Obligations
- Sacred Time, Alterity
- Being There
- A Key Commemoration
- 2
- Reading Dias de muertos
- Semiotic Practices
- A Word About the Literature
- Words and Pictures
- International Attention
- Romancing the Bone
- Self-Portrait With Calavera
- 3
- Dias de muertos and National Identity
- 4
- Two Manífestations of Dias de muertos
- In the Folk Culture of Cuetzalan
- In the Popular Culture of Mexico City
- Posada: X Rays of Fin de Siécle Mexico
- 5
- Pre-Hispanic and Peninsular Traces in Dias de muertos
- Stories of Origin
- Pre-Hispanic Commemorations of the Dead
- Pre-Hispanic Traces in Contemporary Beliefs
- Spanish Presence, Culture Shock
- Historical Notes on All Saints and All Souls' Days
- Death in Medieval Spain and Europe
- Death in Sixteenth-Century Spain
- Transgressive Syncretism
- 6
- Dias de muertos Versus Hallowe'en: A Fight to the Death?
- No Threat to Tradition and Identity
- A New Cultural Syncretism
- 7
- Contemporary Attitudes Toward Death
- Death's Intimates
- Death-Life Masks, Duality
- Three Notes About Catholic Attitudes Toward Días de muertos
- 8
- Reading Calaveras
- Lively Skeletons: The Subversiveness of an Oxymoron
- Where Have All the Calaveras Gone?
- Readings of Calaveras I
- 9
- Feasting on Skeletons
- Readings II
- 10
- Last Words, Last Rites
- Imagining a Sociology in Días de muertos
- An Anthropology in Días de muertos
- The Politics and Poetics of Días de muertos
- Resisting Homogeneity
- Setting Ofrendas, a Conversion Experience
- Glossary
- Appendíx A:
- Literary Calaveras
- Appendíx B:
- Two Mexícan Storíes and a Spanísh Poem
- Appendíx C:
- Notes on Posada's Engravings
- Appendix D:
- A Selection of Náhuatl Poems
- Works Consulted
- Index
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