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Home Altars of Mexico
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher:

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For over a decade, Dana Salvo has traveled throughout the central highlands and southern states of Mexico with artist Dawn Southworth and their young children,
Home Altars of Mexico
Language: en
Pages: 138
Authors: Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Categories: Altars
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher:

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At the heart of many homes in Mexico is the altarcito, or home altar: private shrines which have profound personal and familial meaning and reflect the vitality
Living Shrines
Language: en
Pages: 136
Authors: Marie Romero Cash
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher:

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The tradition of home shrines first began evolving in the American Southwest during the Mexican colonial period, when priests often travelled to homes to perfor
Art and Faith in Mexico
Language: en
Pages: 370
Authors: Elizabeth Netto Calil Zarur
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: UNM Press

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Studies retabloes--Mexican paintings on tin created in the latter half of the nineteenth century--from art, religious, and historical perspectives, and discusse
La Santa Muerte in Mexico
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Wil G. Pansters
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09 - Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

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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