Reference:DAY OF THE DEAD

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DIA DE LOS MUERTOS = DAY OF THE DEAD

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SELECTED WORKS IN THE SDSU LIBRARY

Reference Works

Castro, Rafaela. Dictionary of Chicano Folklore. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2000: 88-89. GR111.M49 C37 2000 Ref, (also in Coleccion Chicana Reference)

Dia de los muertos: An Illustrated Essay and Bibliography. Santa Barbara, CA: Center for Chicano Studies and Colección Tloque Nahuaque, 1983. GT4995 A4 D5 1983 Colección Chicana Ref

"México, El Día de los Santos: Remembrances in Santa Cruz, Mexico." In Read MacDonald, Margaret (Ed.). The Folklore of World Holidays. Detroit: Gale, 1992: 542. GT3930 F65 1992 Ref

Toor, Frances. "The Day of the Dead." In A Treasury of Mexican Folkways: The Customs, Myths, Folklore, Traditions, Beliefs, Fiestas, Dances and Songs of the Mexican People. New York: Crown, 1947: 236-244. GR115 T55 C3 Ref (also in Chicano Collection and Book Stacks)

Books and Periodical Articles

Alvarez y Alvarez de la Cadena, Luis. México: leyendas y costumbres, trajes y danzas. Bibl. Excellent, brief section on Día de los Muertos (221-229). F1210 A7 1970 Special Collections

Behind the Mask in Mexico. Janet Brody Esser, ed. Santa Fe: Museum of International Folk Art and the Museum of New Mexico Press, 1988. Includes "Days of the Dead at Acatlán, Puebla." F1219.3 M4 B44 1988 Oversize/folio

Belk, Russell W. "Day of the Dead: the Tex-Mex Tradition." In Santino, Jack (Ed.) Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994. GT4965 H32 1994

Benson, Elizabeth P. (Ed.). Death and the Afterlife in Pre-Columbian America. Dumbarton Oaks: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, 1975. E59 R38 D42

Brandes, Stanley. "Sugar, Colonialism, and Death: On the Origins of Mexico's Day of the Dead." Comparative Studies in Society & History, 39. 2, (April 199): 270-299.

Brenner, Anita. Idols Behind Altars. New York: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1929 Includes brief section on Day of the Dead (21-27). N6550 B7

Brodman, Barbara L. C. "Historical and Literary Bases of the Cult of Death in Mexico." In The Mexican Cult of Death in Myth and Literature. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1976: 1-17. PQ7207 D4 B7

Carmichael, Elizabeth. The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. GT4995 A4 C37 1992 (also in in Special Collections)

Day, Douglas. "Shades of Halloween: A Day with the Dead." Natural History (Oct. 1990): 66-73.

El Guindi, Fadwa. "Lore and Structure: Todos Santos in the Zapotec System." Journal of Latin American Lore 3:1 (1977):3-18.

Farb Hernandez, Joanne. The Day of the Dead: Tradition and Change in Contemporary Mexico = El Día de los muertos: su tradición, su cambio en un México contemporáneo. Santa Clara, CA: Triton Museum, 1979. GR115 H47 197

Fergusson, Erma. "The Merry Festival of the Dead." Fiesta in Mexico. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934: 199-215. F1215 F34

Garciagodoy, Juanita. Digging the Days of the Dead : A Reading of Mexico's Dias de Muertos. Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, 1998. GT4995.A4 G37 1998 Reserves (also in Special Collections)

Greenleigh, John. The Days of the Dead : Mexico's Festival of Communion with the Departed = Los dias de muertos : un Festival de Comunion con los Muertos en Mexico. [San Francisco, CA] : Collins Publishers San Francisco, 1991. GT4995.A4 G74 Coleccion Chicana (also in Special Collections)

Gutiérrez, Elektra y Tonatiú. "La muerte en el arte popular mexicano." Artes de México 145 (1971): 75-89.

Martínez, Yleana. "Night of the Living Dead: On Día de los Muertos, calaveras laugh at death." Hispanic (Oct. 1995): 20-24.

Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo. "La muerte en el México pre-Hispánico." Artes de México 145 (1971): 6-36.

The Mexican Day of the Dead: An Anthology. Compiled and edited by Chloë Sayer. Boston: Redstone, 1994. GT4995 A4 M49 1994 Colección Chicana

Pomar, Maria Teresa. El día de los muertos: The Life of the Dead in Mexican Folk Art. Fort Worth: Fort Worth Art Museum, 1987. GT4995 A4 P65 1987

Puente, Teresa. "Día de los Muertos." Hispanic (Oct. 1991): 28-29.

Rios, Guadalupe. Dia de muertos : la celebración de la fiesta del 2 de noviembre en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Mexico, D.F. : Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, c1995. GT4995.A4 R56 1995 Coleccion Chicana

Sonntag, Sabrina. "The Return of the Dead: Purhepecha Celebration of Life." Native Peoples Magazine 9.1 (Fall/Winter 1995): 50-56. Chicano Pamphlet File (under Holidays)

Vargas G., Luis Alberto. "La muerte vista por el mexicano de hoy." Artes de México 145 (1971): 57-74.

For Mexican rituals of the dead, see Dead -- Folklore as a subject in the PAC.

See also Halloween

Web

The following has excellent information and links:

http://clnet.ucr.edu/research/folklore.html

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/scmfaq/muertos.html


Compiled by Cecilia Puerto

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