The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe :tradition and transformation /Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba.

Name/Title

The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe :tradition and transformation /Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba.

Description

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 -- Aztl{acute}an: the subversion of the Virgin in the Mexican American Southwest. xx, 226 p. :ill. ;27 cm.

Book Details

Author

Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, Malgorzata

Place Published

City

Albuquerque

Date Published

2007

Publication Subjects

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

Call No.

BT670 .B55 O44 2007

ISBN

9780826341020 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006024482

Notes

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