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

Author
Brandes, Stanley H.
Published
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
Physical Description
xi, 217 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

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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.
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ISBN
1405152478 (hardback : alk. paper)
1405152486 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Note
Subtitle from cover.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-210) and index.
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