Dana Salvo is the author of Home Altars of Mexico, published simultaneously in 1997 by the University of New Mexico Press in the United States as well as Thames and Hudson in Great Britain. For more than ten years, Salvo traveled extensively throughout the central highlands and southern states of Mexico documenting the Purépecha in Michoacán, the Chamula and Zinacantán in Chiapas, and the Maya of the Yucatán, along with other remote indigenous groups in the rural countryside. At the heart of many homes in Mexico is the altarcito, or home altar, which creates a focus of intricate and sincere spirituality with profound personal and familial meaning reflecting the vitality of Mexico's spiritual practices. Ultimately, these images serve as a bridge between the personal realm of reverence and a broader global understanding, inviting an appreciation for the shared human impulse to create sacred space within the walls of the home.