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.