1st Edition
Jungian Perspectives on Santa Muerte Devotees in Mexico Worshipping Death
Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction to Santa Muerte
Chapter 2. La Curandera: healing with Santa Muerte
Chapter 3. Embodying Santa Muerte: La Penelope’s Story
Chapter 4. The Collective Shadow of La Familia Cruz
Chapter 5. El Americano: Marco’s Story
Conclusion
Ars moriendi
Biography
Wendy Risteska is an anthropologist who received her PhD from the University of Sydney under the guidance of Dr. Jadran Mimica and Dr. Sebastian Job. Jungian Perspectives on Santa Muerte Devotees in Mexico: Worshipping Death is her first monograph and explores her interest in the archetypal reproduction of society.
"Based on ethnographic fieldwork among the devotees of the Santa Muerte (Saint Death) in the greater area of Mexico City, this monograph is an outstanding contribution to the critical anthropological knowledge of the present-day Mexican megapolitan lifeworld and its religious imaginary. As a work of interpretation, Risteska’s study offers an original synthesis of Jungian archetypal psychology and phenomenology through which the social reality and experience of death is rendered intelligible in the fulness of its cultural-historical singularity and existential meaningfulness. This book shows on every page what anthropological understanding and its foundational praxis - ethnographic fieldwork - are supposed to accomplish."
- Jadran Mimica, Honorary Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney
