“Firsthand accounts . . . make this volume revelatory, surprising, and hopeful. Folklorists, anthropologists, historians, and religious-studies scholars will find material of great interest in this work: historical and iconographic analyses, an overview of social practices and networks, and ethnographic depictions of performative engagement.”—Kirstin Erickson, Journal of Folklore Research
“This anthology is a welcome addition to what Wil Pansters demonstrates is a relatively new but rapidly expanding field of inquiry: the cult of La Santa Muerte. A comprehensive introduction is followed by timely, fascinating topical essays that shed light on the cult and related topics concerning the cultural role of death in twenty-first-century Mexico.”—Martin Austin Nesvig, editor of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico
