Tag Archives: Dia de Muertos

INAH Offers Make-Your-Own-Craneo Workshops for Children

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF     As part of the ongoing celebration of the Day of the Dead, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) is offering workshops, theatrical performances and story-tellings, as well as displays of traditional ofrendas (altars to the dearly departed) at its museums and archeological centers across the country. During the workshops, which are being

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Mexico’s Night of the (Elegant) Living Dead

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS     Back in the 1910, Mexican printmaker, engraver and newspaper cartoonist José Guadalupe Posada frequently used images of human skulls and bareboned skeletons to make political and cultural critiques of what he perceived of as the absurdities of Mexican society. One of his most famous skeletal images was that of Catrina, an elegant skull dressed only in an

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