The Intimacy of Images: Saints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca
The Intimacy of Images: Saints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca
by Myriam Lamrani
University of Texas Press, 2024
Paper: 978-1-4773-3002-9 | eISBN: 978-1-4773-3004-3 | Cloth: 978-1-4773-3001-2
Library of Congress Classification BX1429.O29L36 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification 202.3
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 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