Publication

1998 - University Press of Colorado, Niwot, Colo, Colorado

Language

English

Word Count

83,250 words, Guess

Page Count

333 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number98028489
  • Goodreads6965105
  • LibraryThing1068077

Classifications

  • DDC394.266
  • LCCGT4995.A4 G37 1998

Description

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 detail differences in attitudes toward death in Mexico and the United States. In part because the living do not exclude the dead from their family circle, celebrants of Dias de muertos treat death as an intimate life companion and fear it less than their northern counterparts, who tend to view death as inimical.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Digging the Days of the Dead: a reading of Mexico's Días de muertosUniversity Press of Colorado1998-01-01

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