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Day of the Dead in the USA : the migration and transformation of a cultural phenomenon / Regina M. Marchi.
Van Pelt Library GT4995.A4 M36 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marchi, Regina M., 1965-
- Series:
- Latinidad : transnational cultures in the United States.
- Latinidad : transnational cultures in the United States
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- All Souls' Day--United States.
- All Souls' Day.
- United States--Social life and customs.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Religious life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 192 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- An ancient and modern festival
- Mexico's special relationship with Day of the Dead
- Day of the Dead in the United States
- Ritual communication and community building
- U.S. Day of the Dead as political communication : a moral economy
- Day of the Dead in the U.S. media : the celebration goes mainstream
- The expanding hybridity of an already hybrid tradition
- The commoditization of a death ritual.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813545578
- 0813545579
- 9780813545585
- 0813545587
- OCLC:
- 258328670
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