Days of Death, Days of Life - Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-231-13689-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 206 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Kristin Norget explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Oaxaca City, Norget provides vivid descriptions of the Day of the Dead and other popular religious practices. She analyzes how the rites and beliefs associated with death shape and reflect poor Oaxacans' values and social identity.

Norget also considers the intimate relationship that is perceived to exist between the living and the dead in Oaxacan popular culture. She argues that popular death rituals, which lie largely outside the sanctioned practices of the Catholic Church, establish and reinforce an ethical view of the world in which the dead remain with the living and in which the poor (as opposed to the privileged classes) do right by one another and their dead. For poor Oaxacans, these rituals affirm a set of social beliefs and practices, based on fairness, egalitarianism, and inclusiveness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Norget, Kristin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Death and Life in OaxacaPart I Rites of Popular Life in Oaxaca 1. Anthropology in a Mexican City2. Practicing Popular Religion in OaxacaPart II Rites of Popular Death in Oaxaca 3. Living with Death4. The Drama of DeathPart III Living the Day of the Dead 5. Days of the Dead in Oaxaca6. Spectacular Death and Cultural ChangeEpilogue: Life in DeathNotesReferencesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Kristin Norget is associate professor of anthropology at McGill University.