Digging the Days of the Dead: a reading of Mexico's días de muertos

✍ Scribed by Juanita Garciagodoy

Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Dias de muertos - Days of the Dead - is celebrated in Mexico each year in late October and early November. It is a family reunion in which the dead are the guests of honour and are welcomed with their favourite foods, carefully chosen gifts, and ritual paraphernalia such as candles and incense.

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