Death and the Idea of Mexico - Table of Contents

November 2005
6 x 9, 581 pp., 52 illus.
$38.95/£28.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
1-890951-53-6
ISBN-13:
978-1-890951-53-5

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From Zone Books:
Death and the Idea of Mexico
Claudio Lomnitz

Preface	Toward a New History of Death	11

	Introduction	23

Part One	Death and the Origin of the State

I	Laying Down the Law	63

II	Purgatory and Ancestor Worship in the Early, Apocalyptic State	99

III	Suffrages for the Dead Among Spaniards and Indians	141

IV	Death, Counter-Reformation, and the Spirit of Colonial Capitalism	179

Part Two	Death and the Origin of Popular Culture

V	The Domestication of Mortuary Ritual and the Origins of Popular Culture, 1595-1790	223

VI	Modern and Macabre: The Explosion of Death Imagery in the Public Sphere, 1790-1880	263

VII	Elite Cohabitation with the Popular Fiesta in the Nineteenth Century	305

Part Three	Death and the Biography of the Nation

VIII	Body Politics and Popular Politics	343

IX	Death and the Mexican Revolution	375

X	The Political Travails of the Skeleton, 1923-85	413

XI	Death in the Contemporary Ethnoscope	453

Conclusion	The Untamable One	483

	Notes	497

	Bibliography	531

	Acknowledgments	553

	Index	555

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