Singing for the Dead chronicles how indigenous people from Oaxaca, Mexico's poorest state, have reversed decades of cultural and linguistic erosion by reviving and reinventing ethnic traditions, particularly by speaking and singing the local indigenous language.
Singing for the Dead chronicles how indigenous people from Oaxaca, Mexico's poorest state, have reversed decades of cultural and linguistic erosion by reviving and reinventing ethnic traditions, particularly by speaking and singing the local indigenous language.
Paja Faudree is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.
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Acknowledgments ix Note on Orthographic and Linguistic Conventions xiii Introduction. Leaving the Pueblo 1 1. From Revolution to Renaissance: A Political Geography and History of "Deep Mexico" 30 2. Revival in the "Land of the Magic Mushroom": A Recent History of Ethnic Relations in the Sierra Mazateca 75 3. Singing for the Spirits: The Annual Day of the Dead Song Contest 105 4. Scenes from a Nativist Reformation: The Mazatec Indigenous Church 141 5. Meeting at the Family Crypt: Social Fault Lines and the Fragility of Community 174 6. Seeing Double: Indigenous Authors, Readers, and the Paradox of Revival 197 Conclusion. Singing for the Dead and the Living: Revival, Indigenous Publics, and the National Afterlife 236 Notes 251 References 277 Index 297
Acknowledgments ix Note on Orthographic and Linguistic Conventions xiii Introduction. Leaving the Pueblo 1 1. From Revolution to Renaissance: A Political Geography and History of "Deep Mexico" 30 2. Revival in the "Land of the Magic Mushroom": A Recent History of Ethnic Relations in the Sierra Mazateca 75 3. Singing for the Spirits: The Annual Day of the Dead Song Contest 105 4. Scenes from a Nativist Reformation: The Mazatec Indigenous Church 141 5. Meeting at the Family Crypt: Social Fault Lines and the Fragility of Community 174 6. Seeing Double: Indigenous Authors, Readers, and the Paradox of Revival 197 Conclusion. Singing for the Dead and the Living: Revival, Indigenous Publics, and the National Afterlife 236 Notes 251 References 277 Index 297
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