Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead: The Day of the Dead in Mexico and Beyond

✍ Scribed by Stanley Brandes

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a great book for the Spanish classroom. It provides lots of good information that you cannot necessarily find on the web. It would be a great book for every school library that has a Spanish program.

✦ Table of Contents

FIGURES AND PLATES......Page 7
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 9
PART 1 INTRODUCTION......Page 13
1 THE DAY OF THE DEAD, PROBLEMS AND PARADOXES......Page 15
PART 2 HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS......Page 29
2 THE SWEETNESS OF DEATH......Page 31
3 SKULLS AND SKELETONS......Page 55
PART 3 CONTEMPORARY TRANSFORMATIONS......Page 79
4 TOURISM AND THE STATE......Page 81
5 THE POETICS OF DEATH......Page 105
6 THE DAY OF THE DEAD AND HALLOWEEN......Page 129
PART 4 NORTH OF THE BORDER......Page 143
7 TEACHING THE DAY OF THE DEAD......Page 145
8 CREATIVITY AND COMMUNITY......Page 166
PART 5 CONCLUSION......Page 191
9 MEXICAN VIEWS OF DEATH......Page 193
REFERENCES......Page 207
INDEX......Page 223
Colour Plates......Page 233