One Hundred Years of Solitude

When finishing The God of Small Things, we talked about the few occurances of incest. One Hundred Years of Solitude has way more incest and with many more characters. Does the book say where the story takes place? Is the incest acceptable because of the culture? It's not really considered wrong and there are no legal reprocussions of this. Also, I don't know if this would be considered some form of pedophilia, but Aureliano wanted to marry Remedios before she even hit puberty. He waited for her to grow up and ignored her older sisters. Granted, he never took advantage of her before they married (so no crime by our standards) but why would he even be romantically looking at a girl so young?
Death is such a huge part of this novel because it occurs so often. So many characters die, but it's also not a huge part because it's barely acknowledged. there are pages and pages of character's lives or parts of their lives but only a sentence or two about their death. There also isn't much about the people dealing with the death of loved ones. What significance is this? Is death not a topic of importance for these characters and in this town? Is Garcia Marquez making a statement about the importance of death in reality? Should death not be glorified because we should celebrate somone's life instead? Or perhaps is it just that the deaths aren't important to the story, but need to be mentioned in order to move forward with the plot?