Days of Death, Days of Life: Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca

Kristin Norget

Paper, 336 pages, 42 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13689-1
$30.00 / £20.50

January, 2006
Cloth, 336 pages, 42 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13688-4
$73.00 / £50.50

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Death and Life in Oaxaca

Part I Rites of Popular Life in Oaxaca

1. Anthropology in a Mexican City

2. Practicing Popular Religion in Oaxaca

Part II Rites of Popular Death in Oaxaca

3. Living with Death

4. The Drama of Death

Part III Living the Day of the Dead

5. Days of the Dead in Oaxaca

6. Spectacular Death and Cultural Change

Epilogue: Life in Death

Notes

References

Index

Related Subjects

• Religion

About the Author

Kristin Norget is associate professor of anthropology at McGill University.

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