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Tag: Day of the Dead

‘Only death can protect us’: How the folk saint La Santa...

Myriam Lamrani, Harvard University When a life-size skeleton dressed like the Grim Reaper first appeared on a street altar...

How commercialization over the centuries transformed the Day of the Dead

Mathew Sandoval, Arizona State University As a Mexican-American who celebrates Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the...

What Day of the Dead tells us about the Aztec philosophy...

Lynn Sebastian Purcell, State University of New York College at Cortland Growing up in the United States, I remember on Halloween my mother used...

Day of the Dead: From Aztec goddess worship to modern Mexican...

Kirby Farah, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Day of the Dead might sound like a solemn affair, but...

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