Skulls to the living, bread to the dead : [the day of the dead in Mexico and beyond] / Stanley Brandes.
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)
- 394.266 22
- GT4995.A4 B73 2006
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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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