Recently, I had occasion to visit Los Angeles, the city with the second largest Mexican population in the world after Mexico City. I knew there would be some stores and temples to the Bony Lady but was quite surprised and happy with what I found.
Emerging Scholar Seeks Funding Support for Cutting-Edge Research on Santa Muerte as Agent of Female Empowerment
As an adjunct professor of anthropology Dr. Kate Kingsbury is not eligible for most research funding that is available to permanent and tenured professors so she has launched a Go Fund Me campaign to raise funds from individual contributors. Many readers of Skeleton Saint are already familiar with her incisive work that focuses on the … Continue reading Emerging Scholar Seeks Funding Support for Cutting-Edge Research on Santa Muerte as Agent of Female Empowerment
Santa Muerte Across the Americas – USC Journalist Melanie Gonzalez Covers the Bony Lady in LA and Beyond
Melanie Gonzalez, University of Southern California journalism student at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, has developed a most impressive multimedia project on the fastest growing new religious movement in the Americas. Los Angeles, the mecca of Santa Muerte devotion in the U.S., is the focus of Gonzalez's illuminating portrait, but there is also … Continue reading Santa Muerte Across the Americas – USC Journalist Melanie Gonzalez Covers the Bony Lady in LA and Beyond
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