Mexique -- Histoire

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"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…

Claudio Lomnitz explores Mexico's rich and unique use of death imagery. Unlike Europeans and Americans, whose denial of death permeates their cultures, the Mexican people display and cultivate a jovial familiarity with the Grim Reaper. This intimacy has become a cornerstone of t…

"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…

"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…