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Digging the Days of the Dead: A Reading of Mexico's Dias de Muertos
by Juanita Garciagodoy (1952- )
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good to fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0870814990
- ISBN 13
- 9780870814990
- Seller
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About This Item
xviii+333 pages with color plates, illustrations, photographs, figures, appendices and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with red gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Inscribed by the author. First edition. 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. This work examines in detail differences in attitudes towards death in Mexico and the United States. Condition: Inscribed on title. Page ends soiled else a very good to fine copy in a fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS006132
- Title
- Digging the Days of the Dead: A Reading of Mexico's Dias de Muertos
- Author
- Juanita Garciagodoy (1952- )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good to fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0870814990
- ISBN 13
- 9780870814990
- Publisher
- University Press of Colorado
- Place of Publication
- Niwot, CO
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- MEXICO
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
- Size
- Royal octavo
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