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The skeleton at the feast : the Day of the Dead in Mexico / Elizabeth Carmichael, Chloe Sayer.

by Carmichael, Elizabeth.

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Austin : University of Texas Press, [1992].

All Souls' Day -- Mexico.

All Saints' Day -- Mexico.

Folk festivals -- Mexico.

Dead -- Folklore.

Mexico -- Social life and customs.

0292776586 (pbk.)

160 p., 32 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 28 cm.

Acknowledgements -- Map of Mexico -- Foreword / by John Mack -- pt. 1. The Day of the Dead -- The pre-Hispanic background -- The Spanish conquest -- Travellers' tales -- The here and now -- pt. 2. Interviews: Introduction -- Fredy Mendez, la congregacion del Tajin, state of Veracruz -- Juan Simbron, la congregacion del Tajin, state of Veracruz -- Froylan Martinez Cuenca, Huaquechula, State of Puebla -- Candido Reyes Castillo, Huaquechula, State of Puebla -- Luis Vivanco, San Salvador Huixcolotla, State of Puebla -- Consuelo Garcia Urrutia, Toluca, State of Mexico -- Wenceslao Rivas Contreras, Toluca, State of Mexico -- Maria Antonieta Sanchez de Escamilla, Puebla City -- Victor Fosado, Vaquez, formerly Mexico City -- Appendix. The Day of the Dead in Mixquic / by Elizabeth Baquedano Meza -- Notes on part 1 -- Notes on part 2 -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- List of illustrations -- Index.

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