La Santa Muerte in Mexico : history, devotion, & society / edited by Wil G. Pansters.
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TextPublisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 230 pages)Content type: - 9780826360823
- 0826360823
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- BL504 .S27 2019
- online - EBSCO
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book examines La Santa Muerte's role in people's daily lives and explores how popular religious practices of worship and devotion developed around a figure often associated with illicit activities.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 16, 2019).
La Santa Muerte: History, Devotion, and Societal Context / Wil G. Pansters -- Saints and Demons: Putting La Santa Muerte in Historical Perspective / Benjamin T. Smith -- Dances of Death in Latin America: Holy, Adopted, and Patrimonialized Dead / Juan Antonio Flores Martos -- La Santa Muerte as Urban Staging: Notes on the Images and Visibility of a Transgressive Performance / Anne Huffschmid -- Moving In and Moving Out: On Exchange and Family in the Cult of La Santa Muerte / Regnar Kristensen -- Devotion That Goes Skin Deep: Tattoos of La Santa Muerte / Bernardo Robles Aguirre -- Afterword: Interpreting La Santa Muerte / Claudio Lomnitz.