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 ...
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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.
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Very Good. 8vo. xviii, 333pp, index, bibliography, appendices, glossary, bw & col ills. Or card covers. Minor edge wear. Mexico's Dias del Muertos (Days of the Dead, All Souls Day).
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Very Good + in very good + jacket. First printing. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Review copy with publisher's card laid in. Beautiful book with numerous black and white and 26 color illustrations. Also includes glossary, appendices, bibliography, and index. A clean otherwise unmarked copy.
