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Edward Wright-Rios
Books by Edward Wright-Rios
Searching for Madre Matiana
Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico
In the mid-nineteenth century prophetic visions attributed to a woman named Madre Matiana roiled Mexican society. Pamphlets of the time proclaimed that decades earlier a humble laywoman foresaw the nation’s calamitous destiny—foreign invasion, widespread misery, and chronic civil strife. The reve...
