Death and the Idea of Mexico

by Claudio Lomnitz and Claudio Lomnitz-Adler

Book Overview

The history of Mexico's fearless intimacy with death--the elevation of death to the center of national identity.

Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from sixteenth-century holocaust to contemporary Mexican-American identity politics, anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz's innovative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890951544
• ISBN13: 9781890951542
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher