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Author Norget, Kristin.

Title Days of death, days of life : ritual in the popular culture of Oaxaca / Kristin Norget.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  394.2660972 N768d 2006    ---  Available
Description xii, 319 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-303) and index.
Contents Introduction : Death and life in Oaxaca -- Rites of popular life in Oaxaca -- Anthropology in a Mexican City -- Practicing popular religion in Oaxaca -- Rites of popular death in Oaxaca -- Living with death -- The drama of death -- Living the Day of the Dead -- Days of the Dead in Oaxaca -- Spectacular death and cultural change -- Epilogue : Life in death.
Subject All Souls' Day -- Mexico -- Oaxaca de Juarez.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Mexico -- Oaxaca de Juarez.
Oaxaca de Juarez (Mexico) -- Religious life and customs.
Oaxaca de Juarez (Mexico) -- Social life and customs.
ISBN 0231136897 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780231136891 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0231136889
9780231136884
Standard No. IG# 0231136889
NLGGC 282916407
YDXCP 2227751
YDXCP 2227750
NLC 20070042632
NZ1 9908940
AU@ 000027878915

 
    
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