Mary, Michael, and Lucifer: Folk Catholicism in Central Mexico Tapa dura - 1986

U.S.A.: Univ of Texas Pr, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very good clean tight copy with light foxing to outer closed pages. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.

UsedGood. There is either a name, note, or insciprtion on the inside cover. There is light writing/highligting in this book. The pages are sun faded and slightly yellowing. Minor shelf wear. The dust jacket shows normal wear and tear. This is a hardcover copy. Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!

Univ of Texas Pr. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0292750897 . This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. Dustjacket does have some shelfwear. Dustjacket in protective mylar sleeve. Inside pages are clean. ; Latin American Monographs; 216 pages .

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986. 1st Edition. x, 216p., b/w illus., dj (Latin American monographs, 69).

x+217 pages with tables, maps, figures, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") issued in light brown cloth with red lettering to spine. Latin American Monographs, number 69. inscribed the author to professor George M Foster. Institute of Latin American Studies. First edition.The physical signs of Roman Catholicism pervade the Mexican countryside. Colonial churches and neighborhood chapels, wayside shrines, and mountaintop crosses dot the landscape. Catholicism also permeates the traditional cultures of rural communities, although this ideational influence is less immediately obvious. It is often couched in enigmatic idiom and imagery, and it is further obscured by the vestiges of pagan customs and the anticlerical attitudes of many villagers. These heterodox tendencies have even led some observers to conclude that Catholicism in rural Mexico is little more than a thin veneer of indigenous practice. In Mary, Michel, and Lucifer John M Ingham attempts to develop a modern semiotic and… Leer más

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. In Mary, Michael & Lucifer there is a wonderful blending of the religious with other cultural domains..

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