La Santa Muerte in Mexico
«This anthology is a welcome addition to what Wil Pansters demonstrates is a relatively new but rapidly expanding field of inquiry: the cult of La Santa Muerte. A comprehensive introduction is followed by timely, fascinating topical essays that shed light on the cult and related topics concerning the cultural role of death in twenty-first-century Mexico." - Martin Austin Nesvig, editor of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico»
For over a decade the cult of La Santa Muerte has grown rapidly in Mexico and the United States. Thousands of people--ranging from drug runners and mothers to cabdrivers, soldiers, police, and prison inmates--invoke the protection of La Santa Muerte. Les mer
This book examines La Santa Muerte's role in people's daily lives and explores how popular religious practices of worship and devotion developed around a figure often associated with illicit activities. She represents life with the possibility of respite but without ultimate redemption, and she speaks to the complexities of lives lived at the fringes of violence, insecurity, impunity, and economic hardship. The essays collected here move beyond the visually arresting sight of La Santa Muerte as a tattoo or figurine, suggesting that she represents a major movement in Mexico.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of New Mexico Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780826363350
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
«This anthology is a welcome addition to what Wil Pansters demonstrates is a relatively new but rapidly expanding field of inquiry: the cult of La Santa Muerte. A comprehensive introduction is followed by timely, fascinating topical essays that shed light on the cult and related topics concerning the cultural role of death in twenty-first-century Mexico." - Martin Austin Nesvig, editor of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico»