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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

TOC

  • 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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