1. The Universality of Death -- 2. Before and after the Fact -- 3. The Mythical Place of Death -- 4. The Quick and the Dead: Relations across the Grave -- 5. Only Flesh and Blood -- 6. Political ...

Preface. Toward a new history of death -- Introduction. Mexico's national totem ; Death and the postimperial condition ; Purgatorius ; Intimacy with death ; Mexico's third totem ; Genealogies of ...