OF THE DEAD, FESTIVALS AND CEMETERIES: ATTITUDES TOWARDS DEATH IN AGUASCALIENTES, 18TH-20TH CENTURY

Local historiography has been dominated by studies on politics, land tenure, education, religion, economy and, to a lesser extent, social and cultural studies, which have recently gained momentum to explain certain phenomena; in this case, attitudes towards death in Aguascalientes.
This book is a historical contribution on sociocultural aspects related to death, in order to better understand the changes and continuities of how the people of Aguascalientes have perceived and suffered death through the centuries.
Throughout the text, the reader will understand different practices, ideas and manifestations that, paraphrasing researcher Philippe Ariès, are understood as attitudes towards death and whose works have inspired the authors of the articles presented here, as well as Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Claudio Lomnitz and Héctor Luis Zarauz, to mention a few.