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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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title Digging the Days of the Dead A Reading of Mexicos Dias De Muertos - photo 1

title:Digging the Days of the Dead : A Reading of Mexico's Dias De Muertos
author:Garciagodoy, Juanita.
publisher:University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin:0870814990
print isbn13:9780870814990
ebook isbn13:9780585042466
language:English
subjectAll Souls' Day--Mexico, Mexico--Social life and customs.
publication date:1998
lcc:GT4995.A4G37 1998eb
ddc:394.266
subject:All Souls' Day--Mexico, Mexico--Social life and customs.
Page iv
Dggng the Days of the Dead
A Readng of Mexco's Das de muertos
Juanta Garcagodoy
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO
Page v
Digging the Days of the Dead a reading of Mexicos das de muertos - image 2
Copyright 1998 by the University Press of Colorado
International Standard Book Number 0-87081-499-0
Published by the University Press of Colorado
P.O. Box 849
Niwot, Colorado 80544
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Garciagodoy, Juanita, 1952
Digging the Days of the Dead: a reading of Mexico's das de muertos/
Juanita Garciagodoy.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87081-499-0 (alk. paper)
1. All Souls' DayMexico. 2. MexicoSocial life and customs.
I. Title.
GT4995.A4G37 Picture 31998
394.266dc21Picture 4Picture 5Picture 6Picture 798-28489
Picture 8Picture 9Picture 10Picture 11Picture 12Picture 13CIP
The color signature in this book was funded in part by a grant from the Minnesota Humanities Commission in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Minnesota State Legislature.
Illustrations on blank pages and section openings are taken from Posada's drawings.
This book was designed and typeset in Sabon and Papryus
by Stephen Adams, Aspen.
07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Page vi
Per a en Jord Rabasa, el meu maco mart
For my parents, Jorge Garcagodoy and Marlyn Wese de Garcagodoy
Para ms nmas y el nma sola
01 Para mis nimas Sugar figures San Miguel de Allende Guanajuato - photo 14
0.1 Para mis nimas. Sugar figures,
San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Page vii
Contents
Illustratons
xi
Color Plates
xv
Acknowledgments
xvii
1 The Dead as Guests of Honor
1
Picture 15
A Family Reunion, National Affirmation
1
Picture 16
How People Celebrate
7
Picture 17
La Ofrenda
8
Picture 18
Hanging out With the Dead
13
Picture 19
Calaveras
14
Picture 20
Public Offerings, a Politicized Catrina
32
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