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Digging the Days of the Dead : a reading of Mexico's Días de muertos / Juanita Garciagodoy.

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In Digging the Days of the Dead, Juanita Garciagodoy depicts various aspects of the celebration - including Prehispanic and Spanish Catholic traces on its development as well as folk and popular culture versions - and describes its changing place in contemporary Mexico. Garciagodoy examines in detai...

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Main Author: Garciagodoy, Juanita, 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©1998.
Subjects:
All Souls' Day > Mexico.
Mexico > Social life and customs.
All Souls' Day.
Manners and customs.
Mexico.
Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations
  • Color plates
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The dead as guests of honor
  • 2. Reading Dias de muertos
  • 3. Dias de muertos and national identity
  • 4. Two manifestations of Dias de muertos
  • 5. Pre-hispanic and peninsular traces in Dias de muertos
  • 6. Dias de muertos versus Hallow'en: A fight to the death ; 7. Contemporary attitudes toward death
  • 8. Reading calaveras
  • 9. Feasting on skeletons
  • 10. Last words, last rites
  • Glossary
  • Appendix A: Literary calaveras
  • Appendix B: Two Mexican stories and a Spanish poem
  • Appendix C: Notes on Posada's engracing
  • Appendix D: A selection of Nahuatl poems
  • Works consulted
  • Index.

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