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Skulls to the living, bread to the dead : [the day of the dead in Mexico and beyond]

Title
Skulls to the living, bread to the dead : [the day of the dead in Mexico and beyond] / Stanley Brandes.
Author
Brandes, Stanley H.
Publication
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

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xi, 217 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Subtitle from cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-210) and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFF 07-426
ISBN
  • 1405152478 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9781405152471 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1405152486 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781405152488 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2006004999
  • 9781405152471
  • 9781405152488
OCLC
  • 64208213
  • vendorOCM64208213
Author
Brandes, Stanley H.
Title
Skulls to the living, bread to the dead : [the day of the dead in Mexico and beyond] / Stanley Brandes.
Imprint
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-210) and index.
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9781405152471
9781405152488
Research Call Number
JFF 07-426
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