Day of the Dead in the USA : the migration and transformation of a cultural phenomenon /
Honoring relatives by tending graves, building altars, and cooking festive meals has been an honored tradition among Latin Americans for centuries. The tribute, "el Dia de los Muertos," has enjoyed renewed popularity since the 1970s when Latino activists and artists in the United States be...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press
[2009].
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| Series: | Latinidad.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj96w |
Table of Contents:
- An ancient and modern festival
- Mexico's special relationship with Day of the Dead
- Day of the Dead in the United States
- Ritual communication and community building
- U.S. Day of the Dead as political communication : a moral economy
- Day of the Dead in the U.S. media : the celebration goes mainstream
- The expanding hybridity of an already hybrid tradition
- The commoditization of a death ritual.