Description: The history of Mexico's fearless intimacy with death--the elevation of death to the center of national identity.
Brief description: Claudio Lomnitz is Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of Death and the Idea of Mexico (Zone Books); Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism; and Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in the Mexican Space.
Review Quotes: "A masterful analysis of political history and cultural anthropology . . . Lomnitz's Death and the Idea of Mexico places him in the company of Octavio Paz and Carlos Monsiváis as both critic and champion of Mexican culture."-- "Bookforum"