Mexico’s Día de Muertos, an Uncanny Celebration of Life
It is a truly unique and colorful experience, and not one that should be missed by foreigners living in Mexico
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When the Saints Come Marching In
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS If the thought of nighttime excursions to the cemetery, public altars to the dead on practically every street corner and sugar skulls with your name written on them in icing gives you the creeps, Mexico is probably the wrong place for you to be this time of year. But if the reaffirmation of life through the celebration
Read moreMexican Marigolds, the Flower of the Dead
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While the ubiquitous images of painted skeletons and sugar skulls that abound across Mexico this time of year might be a bit off-putting for visitors from other countries, the golden orange color of thousands of marigold (cempasúchitl) flowers that line Avenida Reforma and decorate the omnipresent ofrendas (altars to the deceased) at least give
Read moreMexican Gulf Cultures Showcased in Anthropology Museum Exhibit
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Park opened an exhibition on pre-Columbian Gulf of Mexico cultures on Wednesday, Jan. 30. The exhibit, composed of 1,354 pieces, covers a variety of pre-Hispanic societies, from 1600 B.C. up until the 1518 Spanish Conquest, when it is believed that tat least 20 distinct cultures existed
Read moreSeeds of Life and Sexuality in Mexico’s Pre-Hispanic West
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As part of the ongoing 100th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Guadalajara Regional Museum (MRG), the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has organized an exhibit of pre-Hispanic Mexican sculptures of sensual human forms from the western Mexican states of Nayarit, Colima, Jalisco and Michoacán. The exhibit, titled “Semillas de vida:
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