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Episode 18: Day of the Dead, Mexico's Most Famous Festival (Live from Mexico City)


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The traditions, history and celebrations of Day of the Dead, (Dia de Los Muertos).


Episode Icon: 1. Posada's La Calavera Catrina, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain.


Recommended Further Reading...


  • Brandes, Stanley H. ‘Iconography in Mexico's Day of the Dead: Origins and Meaning’, Ethnohistory, Volume 45 No. 2, (Spring, 1998), pp. 181-218.


  • ‘Is There a Mexican View of Death?’, Ethos, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Mar., 2003), pp. 127-144.


  • ‘Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead: The Day of the Dead in Mexico and Beyond’, (Hoboken, New Jersey, 2007).


  • Miliotes, Diana, ‘José Guadalupe Posada and the Mexican Broadside’, (New Haven and London, 2006).


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