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100 1 $aLomnitz-Adler, Claudio.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83175061
245 10 $aDeath and the idea of Mexico /$cClaudio Lomnitz.
260 $aBrooklyn, N.Y. :$bZone Books ;$aCambridge, Mass. :$bDistributed by MIT Press,$c2005.
300 $a581 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 531-552) and index.
505 00 $tPreface : toward a new history of death --$tMexico's national totem --$tDeath and the postimperial condition --$tPurgatorius --$tIntimacy with death --$tMexico's third totem --$tGenealogies of Mexican death --$tThe organization of this book --$gPt. 1.$tDeath and the origin of the state --$gI.$tLaying down the law --$gII.$tPurgatory and ancestor worship in the early, apocalyptic state --$gIII.$tSuffrages for the dead among Spaniards and Indians --$gIV.$tDeath, counter-Reformation, and the spirit of colonial capitalism --$gPt. 2.$tDeath and the origin of popular culture --$gV.$tThe domestication of mortuary ritual and the origins of popular culture, 1595-1790 --$gVI.$tModern and macabre : the explosion of death imagery in the public sphere, 1790-1880 --$gVII.$tElite cohabitation with the popular fiesta in the nineteenth century --$gPt. 3.$tDeath and the biography of the nation --$gVIII.$tBody politics and popular politics --$gIX.$tDeath and the Mexican revolution --$gX.$tThe political travails of the skeleton, 1923-85 --$gXI.$tDeath in the contemporary ethnoscope --$tConclusion : the untambale one.
520 1 $a"Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from sixteenth-century holocaust to contemporary Mexican-American identity politics, anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz's innovative study marks a turning point in understanding Mexico's rich and unique use of death imagery. Unlike contemporary Europeans and Americans, whose denial of death permeates their cultures, the Mexican people display and cultivate a jovial familiarity with death. This intimacy with death has become the cornerstone of Mexico's national identity." "Based on a stunning range of sources - from missionary testimonies to newspaper cartoons, from masterpieces of artistic vanguards to accounts of public executions and political assassinations - Death and the Idea of Mexico moves beyond the limited methodology of traditional historiographies of death to probe the depths of a people and a country whose fearless acquaintance with death shapes the very terms of its social compact."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aDeath$xSocial aspects$zMexico.
650 0 $aDeath in popular culture$zMexico.
650 0 $aDeath in art.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036106
650 0 $aDeath in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036108
651 0 $aMexico$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084571
651 0 $aMexico$xPolitics and government.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084603
651 0 $aMexico$xSocial life and customs.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107580
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