Emerging iconographies and patrimonized deaths in Latin America: Holy dead, miraculous dead and adopted dead

Ethnographically, I explore imaginaries in Latin American societies where death has a role and relevant agency; as well as its connection to some figures and emerging cults that claim to embody death as a self possession and heritage. From the Santa Muerte in Mexico, I will make a comparison to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Juan Antonio Flores Martos
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red 2014-05-01
Series:Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red
Online Access:https://www.aibr.org/antropologia/netesp/numeros/0902/090202e.pdf