"This outstanding work was written by an author with a Renaissance mind. It examines the Mexican people's in many respects unique relationship to death throughout several centuries. It brilliantly straddles the fields of history, anthropology, and religion." Friedrich Katz "This outstanding work was written by an author with a Renaissance mind. It examines the Mexican people's in many respects unique relationship to death throughout several centuries. It brilliantly straddles the fields of history, anthropology, and religion." Friedrich Katz
Claudio Lomnitz is Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of Death and the Idea of Mexico (Zone Books); Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism; and Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in the Mexican Space.
Lomnitz's masterful Death and the Idea of Mexico places him in the
company of Octavio Paz and Carlos Monsivais as both critic and
champion of Mexico culture. This study of death makes Mexico come
alive.—Bookforum
Easily ranks as the most sophisticated, well-documented, and
thought-provoking treatment of Mexico's unique national
totem.—American Historical Review
Death and the Idea of Mexico is, in every sense, a stunning
volume...Lomnitz has produced a magisterial work of enormous depth,
sensitivity, and scope. Its scholarly value will endure for
decades, all the more so because it is written in a thoroughly
accessible, at times lyrical, style.—American Ethnologist
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