Day of the Dead, between sorrowful intimacy and jovial familiarity

SPLASHDOWN Ana Cecilia Terrazas One of the best anthropologists in the world, the Mexican Claudio Lomnitz, says that “unlike contemporary Europeans and Americans, whose denial of death permeates their cultures, the Mexican people show and cultivate a jovial familiarity, an intimacy that has become cornerstone of its national identity. This in Idea of ​​death in … Read more