Death becomes them: When the life of the party is dead

From: The Village Voice | Date: October 29, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Death becomes them: When the life of the party is dead DAY OF THE DEAD National Museum of the American Indian 1 Bowling Green 212.514.3822 Sunday

Not even perennial Halloween Adventure store loiterers or grave-robbing goth hicks from Patchogue can assert the kind of cosmic embrace of death that's at the heart of Mexico's Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). "The Mexican," writes Octavio Paz, "is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it; it is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love." Though the holiday has been commercialized, Catholicized, ...

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