Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca
by
Kristin Norget
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2005
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....