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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
ISBN-100826360815
ISBN-139780826360816
eBay Product ID (ePID)15038676029
Product Key Features
Number of Pages248 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameSanta Muerte in Mexico : History, Devotion, and Society
Publication Year2019
SubjectLatin America / Mexico, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Cults
TypeTextbook
AuthorWil G. Pansters
Subject AreaFamily & Relationships, Religion, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight17.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2019-012260
Reviews"Firsthand accounts . . . make this volume revelatory, surprising, and hopeful. Folklorists, anthropologists, historians, and religious-studies scholars will find material of great interest in this work: historical and iconographic analyses, an overview of social practices and networks, and ethnographic depictions of performative engagement."--Kirstin Erickson, Journal of Folklore Research, "La Santa Muerte in Mexico contributes a valuable analytical perspective to the ongoing scholarly conversation regarding this enigmatic figure."--Anna M. Nogar, Church History
TitleLeadingLa
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal202.3
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Preface Chapter One. La Santa Muerte: History, Devotion, and Societal Context Wil G. Pansters Chapter Two. Saints and Demons: Putting La Santa Muerte in Historical Perspective Benjamin T. Smith Chapter Three. Dances of Death in Latin America: Holy, Adopted, and Patrimonialized Dead Juan Antonio Flores Martos Chapter Four. La Santa Muerte as Urban Staging: Notes on the Images and Visibility of a Transgressive Performance Anne Huffschmid Chapter Five. Moving In and Moving Out: On Exchange and Family in the Cult of La Santa Muerte Regnar Kristensen Chapter Six. Devotion That Goes Skin Deep: Tattoos of La Santa Muerte Judith Katia Perdigón Castañeda and Bernardo Robles Aguirre Chapter Seven. Afterword: Interpreting La Santa Muerte Claudio Lomnitz Bibliography Index
SynopsisFor over a decade the cult of La Santa Muerte has grown rapidly in Mexico and the United States. Thousands of people--ranging from drug runners and mothers to cabdrivers, soldiers, police, and prison inmates--invoke the protection of La Santa Muerte. Devotees seek her protection through practicing popular vows, attending public rosaries and masses at street altars, and constructing and maintaining home altars. 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. She represents life with the possibility of respite but without ultimate redemption, and she speaks to the complexities of lives lived at the fringes of violence, insecurity, impunity, and economic hardship. The essays collected here move beyond the visually arresting sight of La Santa Muerte as a tattoo or figurine, suggesting that she represents a major movement in Mexico., 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., For over a decade the cult of La Santa Muerte has grown rapidly in Mexico and the United States. Thousands of people--ranging from drug runners and mothers to cabdrivers, soldiers, police, and prison inmates--invoke the protection of La Santa Muerte. Devotees seek her protection through practicing popular vows, attending public rosaries and masses at street altars, and constructing and maintaining home altars.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. She represents life with the possibility of respite but without ultimate redemption, and she speaks to the complexities of lives lived at the fringes of violence, insecurity, impunity, and economic hardship. The essays collected here move beyond the visually arresting sight of La Santa Muerte as a tattoo or figurine, suggesting that she represents a major movement in Mexico.
LC Classification NumberBL504.S27 2019
