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Death and the Idea of Mexico (Paperback)
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Death and the Idea of Mexico (Paperback)
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The history of Mexico's fearless intimacy with death-the elevation
of death to the center of national identity. 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,
anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz's innovative study marks a turning
point in understanding Mexico's rich and unique use of death
imagery. Unlike contemporary Europeans and Americans, whose denial
of death permeates their cultures, the Mexican people display and
cultivate a jovial familiarity with death. This intimacy with death
has become the cornerstone of Mexico's national identity. Death and
Idea of Mexico focuses on the dialectical relationship between
dying, killing, and the administration of death, and the very
formation of the colonial state, of a rich and variegated popular
culture, and of the Mexican nation itself. The elevation of Mexican
intimacy with death to the center of national identity is but a
moment within that history-within a history in which the key
institutions of society are built around the claims of the fallen.
Based on a stunning range of sources-from missionary testimonies to
newspaper cartoons, from masterpieces of artistic vanguards to
accounts of public executions and political assassinations-Death
and the Idea of Mexico moves beyond the limited methodology of
traditional historiographies of death to probe the depths of a
people and a country whose fearless acquaintance with death shapes
the very terms of its social compact.
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