She discovered that death in Oaxaca is the inspiration for an elaborate series of ritual events and cultural discourses concerned with the reinvigoration of traditional ideas of collectivism and...

She discovered that death in Oaxaca is the inspiration for an elaborate series of ritual events and cultural discourses concerned with the reinvigoration of traditional ideas of collectivism and community in a rapidly changing and unstable social context in which such norms and values are being severely eroded.