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Days of Death, Days of Life

Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca [Hardback]

by Kristin Norget

    • Author

      Kristin Norget

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Columbia University Press

    • Published

      December 2005

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      Product Description

      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 relationship that is perceived to exist between the living and the dead in Oaxacan popular culture. She argues that popular death rituals, which lie largely outside the sanctioned practices of the Catholic Church, establish and reinforce an ethical view of the world in which the dead remain with the living and in which the poor (as opposed to the privileged classes) do right by one another and their dead. For poor Oaxacans, these rituals affirm a set of social beliefs and practices, based on fairness, egalitarianism, and inclusiveness.

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      • Author

        Kristin Norget

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Columbia University Press

      • Published

        December 2005

      • Weight

        627g

      • Page Count

        336

      • Dimensions

        153 x 229 x 23 mm

      • ISBN

        9780231136884

      • ISBN-10

        0231136889

      • Eden Code

        1190906

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      • Author/Creator: Kristin Norget

      • ISBN: 9780231136884

      • Publisher: Columbia University Press

      • Release Date: December 2005

      • Weight: 627g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 23 mm

      • Eden Code: 1190906

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