Black madonna in Latin America and Europe : tradition and transformation / Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba.

Author/Creator:

Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, Małgorzata, 1954-

Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009, c2007.

Format/Description:

Book
xx, 226 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Subjects:

Black Madonnas -- Latin America.
Black Madonnas -- Europe.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to.

Contents:

From neolithic traditions to contemporary fairy tales: popular religiosity, folklore, and symbolic space in East-Central Europe
The Virgin of Guadalupe and the creation of national Mestizo identity in Mexico
Brazil and the Caribbean: Afro-Indo-European syncretism
Aztlán: the subversion of the Virgin in the Mexican American Southwest.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-209) and index.

ISBN:

0826341039
9780826341037

OCLC:

298513292

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