The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe
Subtitle: tradition and transformation
By: Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780826341020; 9780826341044
Subjects: Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to; Black Virgins -- Latin America; Black Virgins -- Europe
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: From neolithic traditions to contemporary fairy tales: popular religiosity, folklore, and symbolic space in East-Central Europe; title: The Virgin of Guadalupe and the creation of national Mestizo identity in Mexico; title: Brazil and the Caribbean: Afro-Indo-European syncretism; title: Aztlán: the subversion of the Virgin in the Mexican American Southwest.