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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
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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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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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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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