{"product_id":"the-intimacy-of-images-saints-death-and-devotion-to-la-santa-muerte-in-oaxaca-hardback-9781477330012","title":"The Intimacy of Images; Saints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca (Hardback) 9781477330012","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Intimacy of Images\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSaints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMyriam Lamrani (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477330012, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 May 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages, 21 b\u0026amp;w photos, 8 color photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eLamrani offers rich insights into the spiritual landscape of Oaxaca, exploring how La Santa Muerte, religious icons of saints and virgins, photos of ancestors on altars, public murals, and tattoos work the magic of transintimacy-connecting images to the physical and spiritual realms they traverse in order to act upon human imaginaries. The Intimacy of Images illuminates the complexity of Mexicans' relationship with death and how the current context of violence is layered upon a long history of intricate networks of meaning and connection across colonial, cultural, geographical, and spiritual boundaries.\u003c\/div\u003e - Lynn Stephen, University of Oregon, author of We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements \u003cdiv\u003eLamrani grounds the symphonic dissonance of her multi-scalar ethnography in a scintillating vortex of images. Scales mean slippages; and slippages reveal an intimacy that transcends scales. Lamrani adroitly navigates this seismic voyage through trauma and tragedy under the grim grin of a sacralized mortality. Her gripping but nuanced narrative transcends the tyranny of categories and borders, revealing how intimacy simultaneously acknowledges and resists the variegated violence that bedevils human existence everywhere.\u003c\/div\u003e - Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, author of Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLa Santa Muerte becomes a lens for understanding how Oaxacans relate to saints, loved ones, and other “special dead.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In Oaxaca, images of saints and loved ones, as well as of victims of political or criminal violence, are seemingly everywhere. While Oaxacans relate to all sorts of “special dead,” they are particularly devoted to La Santa Muerte (Saint Death), a female reaper-like figure whose popularity has risen in tandem with violence throughout Mexico. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Intimacy of Images\u003c\/i\u003e recontextualizes Oaxacans’ relationships with their “special dead” through the lens of La Santa Muerte, examining how devotees closely interact with what Lamrani terms “intimate images”: not only devotional effigies but also photographs, films, tattoos, and murals, and even dreams and visions. Though Mexicans have a well-known cultural familiarity with death, Lamrani argues that devotion to La Santa Muerte builds upon this intimacy even as it also participates in the production of terror and reflects political and criminal violence. Ultimately, Lamrani finds that these human-image interactions represent more than Catholic devotion; they reveal the secrets of Oaxacan political, religious, and social life, embody changing relationships to mortality and violence, and even offer insight into the practice of anthropology itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction. The Intimacy of Images \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part I. On Images and Saint Death \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. The Oscillating Image: The Saints Misunderstood \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. The Souls of the Dream: Oneiric Images \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part II. On Intimacy and Devotion \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. Intimate Aesthetics: On Closeness with the Images \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. Intimate Constellations: The Living, the Dead \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part III. Beyond Intimacy and the Image \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5. Transcendent Images: Saints on the Move beyond the Mexico-US Border \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 6. Transintimacy: The Ultimate Intimacy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Concluding Remarks. Transintimacy: Kindred Images \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e References \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591020310808,"sku":"9781477330012","price":63.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-intimacy-of-images-saints-death-and-devotion-to-la-santa-muerte-in-oaxaca-hardback-9781477330012","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}