Year: 2022
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the public Day of the Dead ceremonies, valued as intangible national heritage, were cancelled. What would be the effects of this culture of isolation on the Day of the Dead tradition? Would the tradition cease, move or mutate towards new uses, places and expressions? And what new creative uses of the tradition would emerge? With these questions we undertook an online survey. With the data obtained from 720 questionnaires and 280 photographs received from the altars of the dead we made a video to describe to whom the altars are dedicated, to explain the physical displacements towards the home and the socio-digital networks; the aesthetic changes that document new resemanticizations and resymbolizations, be they familiar, institutional, patriotic, mercantile, spectacularization or linked to expressions of citizen activism; the new places where they are mounted that helped to recognize the plasticity of this tradition as a material support of renewed senses, expressions and socio-cultural demands linked to the theme of death and remembrance that are manifested in the varied appropriations of this ancestral Mexican tradition.
Source: Encartes
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4296925638