Skulls to the living : bread to the dead / Stanley Brandes
by Brandes, Stanley H
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2008. 4rd edition. Softcover. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xi, 217 pp., 16 pp. plates : ill. (some col.), 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pp. 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. Subjects; All Souls' Day. Mexico. Religious life and customs.
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- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
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- Title
- Skulls to the living : bread to the dead / Stanley Brandes
- Author
- Brandes, Stanley H
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4rd edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1405152478
- ISBN 13
- 9781405152471
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Limited
- Date Published
- 2008
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