[PDF.60zz] Days of Death, Days of Life: Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca

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

[PDF.as78] Days of Death, Days of Life: Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca

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 | #1898429 in Books |  2005-12-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.80 x6.00l,1.21 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Help the living stay alive by keeping the dead alive inside them|By N. E. G. Griffiths|This fascinating book explores how death rituals (wakes, funerals and burial practices)are entwined with everyday life, and help to give it meaning in poor urban communities on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. "Oaxacan death-related ritual performances can be seen as eman| |[A] Masterful study... Highly recommended. (Choice)

Norget's book should find a welcomed place on many of our shelves. (Jeffrey H. Cohen Journal of Anthropological Research)

Will be useful to scholars... [while] still perfec

Kristin Norget explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Oaxaca City, Norget provides vivid descriptions of the Day of the Dead and other popular religious practices. She analyzes how the rites and beliefs associated with death shape and reflect poor Oaxacans' values and social identity.

Norget also considers the intimate relationsh...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Days of Death, Days of Life: Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca   |  Kristin Norget. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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