Days of Death, Days of Life - Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca

Informationen zum Autor Kristin Norget Klappentext 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. She analyzes how the rites and beliefs associated with death shape and reflect poor Oaxacans' values and social identity. Norget also considers the intimate relationship that is perceived to exist between the living and the dead in Oaxacan popular culture. She argues that popular death rituals! which lie largely outside the sanctioned practices of the Catholic Church! establish and reinforce an ethical view of the world in which the dead remain with the living and in which the poor (as opposed to the privileged classes) do right by one another and their dead. For poor Oaxacans! these rituals affirm a set of social beliefs and practices! based on fairness! egalitarianism! and inclusiveness. Zusammenfassung Explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. This book provides descriptions of the Day of the Dead and other religious practices. It analyzes how the rites and beliefs associated with death shape and reflect poor Oaxacans' values and social identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Death and Life in OaxacaPart I Rites of Popular Life in Oaxaca1. Anthropology in a Mexican City2. Practicing Popular Religion in OaxacaPart II Rites of Popular Death in Oaxaca3. Living with Death4. The Drama of DeathPart III Living the Day of the Dead5. Days of the Dead in Oaxaca6. Spectacular Death and Cultural ChangeEpilogue: Life in DeathNotesReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Kristin Norget, Norget Kristin
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.2005
• EAN: 9780231136891
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13689-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Mexico, Sociology, Popular Culture, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / General, Christianity, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology & anthropology, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal