|
|
Product Description
Honoring relatives by tending graves, building altars, and cooking festive meals has been an honored tradition among Latin Americans for centuries. The tribute, "el Dia de los Muertos," has enjoyed renewed popularity since the 1970s when Latino activists and artists in the United States began expanding "Day of the Dead" north of the border with celebrations of performance art, Aztec danza, art exhibits, and other public expressions.
Focusing on the power of ritual to serve as a communication medium, Regina M. Marchi combines a mix of ethnography, historical research, oral history, and critical cultural analysis to explore the manifold and unexpected transformations that occur when the tradition is embraced by the mainstream. A testament to the complex nature of ethnic identity, Day of the Dead in the USA provides insight into the power of ritual to create community, transmit oppositional messages, and advance educational, political, and economic goals.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family, Food and Culture
- Chicago's Sweet Candy History (Images of America)
- Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
- The Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles
- The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record (Dover Architectural)
- The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth (1))
- Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch (1))
- Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)
- Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
- Autonomous: A Novel
*If this is not the "Day of the Dead in the USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon (Latinidad: Tr" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Aug 17, 2024 02:01 +08.
