Home Altars of Mexico
Gutierrez, Ramon A.; Beezley, William H.; Scalora, Sal; Salvo, Dana; Scalora, Salvatore; Mesa-Bains, Amalia
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Language: English
Published by Univ of New Mexico Pr, 1997
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- Title
- Home Altars of Mexico
- Author
- Gutierrez, Ramon A.; Beezley, William H.; Scalora, Sal; Salvo, Dana; Scalora, Salvatore; Mesa-Bains, Amalia
- Publisher
- Univ of New Mexico Pr
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- very_good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0826317855
- ISBN 13
- 9780826317858
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
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, Jahna and Simone. They have visited the Purepechan Indians in Michoacan, the Chamulan and Zinacantan tribes in Chiapas, the Maya of the Yucatan peninsula, and several other isolated groups in the countryside. Welcomed into the homes of these rural peoples as few outsiders have been before, Salvo was permitted the rare privilege of photographing the home environments of these families. Central to each interior was the altarcito, or home altar. These dazzling large-format color photographs depict the altars in all their glory and meticulous detail.
The essays provide the cultural and historic background to the practice of constructing domestic altars, linking the ancient traditions with modern customs.
The essays provide the cultural and historic background to the practice of constructing domestic altars, linking the ancient traditions with modern customs.
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About the Author
Dana Salvo is an artist living in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ramn Gutirrez, the volume editor, is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego; Salvatore Scalora, an independent curator, is a professor of art at the University of Connecticut; and; William Beezley is Neville Penrose chair of history at Texas Christian University. Amalia Mesa-Bains is currently the director of the Institute for Visual Public Art, California State University at Monterey Bay.
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