Death—the image of the skeleton—has long been the symbol of a strong Mexican state. But, like most symbols, it has many faces. Nowhere is this more evident than in Oaxaca, where tourists flock to attend joyful Day of the Dead celebrations while the cult to La Santa Muerte, a sanctified death, is growing strong. Through the ethnographic lens of this image, I approach other representations of the slain body to reassess the country's intimacy with death against a backdrop of violence. This analysis unveils different scales of intimacies (from devotion to the nation), reckoning with how these images straddle the boundaries between politics, criminality, and religion. Ultimately, I offer the concept of transintimacy, proposing that the transintimate collapses well-known anthropological dichotomies, for it is not only a feature of how people relate with these images, but it is also at the very heart of our discipline. [transintimacy, images, anthropological theory, nationalism, death, violence, Santa Muerte, Oaxaca, Mexico]

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极致的亲密

死亡——骷髅的形象——长期以来一直是墨西哥强大国家的象征。但是，像大多数符号一样，它有很多面。这一点在瓦哈卡最为明显，游客蜂拥而至参加欢乐的亡灵节庆祝活动，而对圣死者的崇拜，一种神圣的死亡，正在变得越来越强大。通过这幅图像的民族志镜头，我接近了被杀尸体的其他表现形式，以重新评估这个国家在暴力背景下与死亡的亲密关系。该分析揭示了不同程度的亲密关系（从对国家的热爱），考虑到这些图像如何跨越政治、犯罪和宗教之间的界限。最后，我提出了跨亲密的概念，提出跨亲密瓦解了众所周知的人类学二分法，因为它不仅是人们如何与这些图像相关联的一个特征，而且它也是我们学科的核心。[超亲密,图像,人类学理论,民族主义,死亡,暴力, Santa Muerte , Oaxaca , Mexico ]