Momias
Subtitle: ilusiones de vida eterna
By: Museo de El Carmen
Edition: Primera edición.
Series: Museos y galerías
Publisher: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Ciudad de México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9786075391717
Subjects: Mummies; Exhibitions; Indians of Mexico; Funeral customs and rites
Description: Catalog published to accompany exhibit commemorating re-opening to public in 2018 of historic Mexico City monastery's crypts and its mummies. Texts discuss religious and social history of mummification in Mexico and elsewhere in world (although these mummies in particular are "accidental" and not preserved in any special way) and restoration effort surrounding this exhibit. Among book's numerous illustrations and diagrams are a dozen or so striking, beautifully lit and lovingly precise photographs of individual mummies and details of their dress, posture, etc. High quality reproductions on heavy paper.
Notes: Contains photos.

Includes bibliographical references.

Bibliography at the end of each chapter.
Table of contents: title: Presentaciones: Diego Prieto Hernández Alfredo Marín Gutiérrez; title: Momias, testimonios de vida / José Enrique Ortiz Lanz; title: Cuerpos eternos de México / José Concepción Jiménez López y Eva Gabriela Salas Bautista; title: Vivimos en tierra prestada : la muerte entre los nahuas del posclásico tardío / Patricia Ledesma Bouchan; title: La muerte en la doctrina cristiana / Consuelo Maquívar.