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At the heart of many homes in Mexico is the "altarcito", or home altar: private shrines which have profound personal and familial meaning and reflect the vitality of Mexico's spiritual practices. The photographs in this collection depict the altars in detail. Some are constructed for special holidays - Christmas or the Day of the Dead - while others commemorate family members using photographs, mementoes and the deceased's favourite foods. For more than ten years, photographer Dana Salvo - a Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright scholar - visited the Purepehcan Indians in Michoacan, the Chamulan and Zinacantan tribes in Chiapas, the Maya of the Yucatan peninsula, and several other isolated groups in the countryside. Essays by Ramon Gutierrez, Salvatore Scalora and William Beezley provide the cultural and historical background to the practice of constructing domestic altars, linking ancient traditions to modern customs.
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Softcover. Condition: VG. Pink, yellow & color illus. wraps, French flaps, 138 pp., 59 color plates, sundry other illus. "For over a decade, Dana Salvo has travelled throughout the central highlands and southern states of Mexico with artist Dawn Southworth and their young children, Jahna and Simone. . Welcomed into the houses of these rural peoples, as few outsiders have been before, Salvo was permitted the rare privilege of photographing their home environments. Central to each interior is the altarcito, or home altar, which creates a focus of intricate and sincere spirituality. These dazzling large-format colour photographs depict the altars in all their glory and meticulous detail." (flap) With essays by Ramon A. Gutierrez, Salvatore Scalora, William H. Beezlery, and Amalia Mesa-Bains. Inspirational. Seller Inventory # 138597