224 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:13 May 2025
ISBN:9781477330029
Hardcover
Release Date:13 May 2025
ISBN:9781477330012
The Intimacy of Images
Saints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca
University of Texas Press
La Santa Muerte becomes a lens for understanding how Oaxacans relate to saints, loved ones, and other “special dead.”
- Introduction. The Intimacy of Images
- Part I. On Images and Saint Death
- Chapter 1. The Oscillating Image: The Saints Misunderstood
- Chapter 2. The Souls of the Dream: Oneiric Images
- Part II. On Intimacy and Devotion
- Chapter 3. Intimate Aesthetics: On Closeness with the Images
- Chapter 4. Intimate Constellations: The Living, the Dead
- Part III. Beyond Intimacy and the Image
- Chapter 5. Transcendent Images: Saints on the Move beyond the Mexico-US Border
- Chapter 6. Transintimacy: The Ultimate Intimacy
- Concluding Remarks. Transintimacy: Kindred Images
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
