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Mary, Michael, and Lucifer : Folk Catholicism in Central Mexico (Latin

Folk Catholicism in Central Mexico [Paperback]

by John M. Ingham

    • Author

      John M. Ingham

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      University of Texas Press

    • Published

      June 1986

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    Mary, Michael, and Lucifer : Folk Catholicism in Central Mexico (Latin

    Today's Price £14.52



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    The physical signs of Roman Catholicism pervade the Mexican countryside. Colonial churches and neighborhood chapels, wayside shrines, and mountaintop crosses dot the landscape. Catholicism also permeates the traditional cultures of rural communities, although this ideational influence is less immediately obvious. It is often couched in enigmatic idiom and imagery, and it is further obscured by the vestiges of pagan customs and the anticlerical attitudes of many villagers. These heterodox tendencies have even led some observers to conclude that Catholicism in rural Mexico is little more than a thin veneer on indigenous practice.In Mary, Michael, and Lucifer John M. Ingham attempts to develop a modern semiotic and structuralist interpretation of traditional Mexican culture, an interpretation that accounts for the culture's apparent heterodoxy. Drawing on field research in Tlayacapan, Morelos, a village in the central highlands, he shows that nearly every domain of folk culture is informed with religious meaning. More precisely, the Catholic categories of spirit, nature, and evil compose the basic framework of the villagers' social relations and subjective experiences.

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    • Author

      John M. Ingham

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      University of Texas Press

    • Published

      June 1986

    • Weight

      346g

    • Page Count

      228

    • Dimensions

      152 x 230 x 14 mm

    • ISBN

      9780292751101

    • ISBN-10

      0292751109

    • Eden Code

      1926028

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    • Author/Creator: John M. Ingham

    • ISBN: 9780292751101

    • Publisher: University of Texas Press

    • Release Date: June 1986

    • Weight: 346g

    • Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 14 mm

    • Eden Code: 1926028


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