Mexican Days

Mexican Days
Author: Tony Cohan
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2008-11-19
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0307488195

Tony Cohan’s On Mexican Time, his chronicle of discovering a new life in the small Mexican mountain town of San Miguel de Allende, has beguiled readers and become a travel classic. Now, in Mexican Days, point of arrival becomes point of departure as—faced with the invasion of the town by tourists and an entire Hollywood movie crew, a magazine editor’s irresistible invitation, and his own incurable wanderlust—Cohan undertakes a richer, wider exploration of the country he has settled in. Told with the intimate, sensuous insight and broad sweep that captivated readers of On Mexican Time, Mexican Days is set against a changing world as Cohan encounters surprise and adventure in a Mexico both old and new: among the misty mountains and coastal Caribbean towns of Veracruz; the ruins and resorts of Yucatán; the stirring indigenous world of Chiapas; the markets and galleries of Oaxaca; the teeming labyrinth of Mexico City; the remote Sierra Gorda mountains; the haunted city of Guanajuato; and the evocative Mayan ruins of Palenque. Along the way he encounters expatriates and artists, shady operatives and surrealists, and figures from his past. More than an immensely pleasurable and entertaining travel narrative by one of the most vivid, compelling travel voices to emerge in recent years, Mexican Days is both a celebration of the joys and revelations to be found in this inexhaustibly interesting country and a searching investigation of the Mexican landscape and the grip it is coming to have in the North American imagination.

Mexican Independence Day and Cinco de Mayo

Mexican Independence Day and Cinco de Mayo
Author: Dianne M. MacMillan
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780766030442

The origins and traditions of these two special holidays are presented in this illustrated reference book with full-color photos for middle readers.

Days of Obligation

Days of Obligation
Author: Richard Rodriguez
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 257
Release: 1993-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0140096221

A Pulitzer Prize Finalist Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and spiritual landscapes of Mexico and the US and their impact on his soul.

Nine Days to Christmas

Nine Days to Christmas
Author: Marie Hall Ets
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2017-10-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0486815323

Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a piñata for it.

Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico

Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico
Author: Michael Werner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1024
Release: 2015-05-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135973776

Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico includes approximately 250 articles on the people and topics most relevant to students seeking information about Mexico. Although the Concise version is a unique single-volume source of information on the entire sweep of Mexican history-pre-colonial, colonial, and moderns-it will emphasize events that affecting Mexico today, event students most need to understand.

Days of Death, Days of Life

Days of Death, Days of Life
Author: Kristin Norget
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0231136897

Kristin Norget explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in the popular culture of poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. Norget's work offers an original perspective on the significance of the Day of the Dead and other Oaxacan ritual practices in shaping people's values and social identities. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Oaxacan neighborhoods, Norget includes vivid descriptions of Day of the Dead rituals.