About the Book

The Days of the Dead offers a remarkable journey within Mexico's traditional holiday honoring departed ancestors, friends, and family. Each aspect of the multiday festival is carefully explored, from the journey to the cemeteries to spruce up neglected gravesites to the lively marketplace selling breads and candies in the shapes of skulls and skeletons and finally, the peaceful vigil as friends and families crowd the cemeteries to await the arrival of their loved ones through the long night.

San Francisco-based photographer John Greenleigh traveled to small towns in Mexico in four different years to document this extraordinary festival. Accompanied by evocative text by cultural scholar Rosalind Rosoff Beimler, the pictures speak eloquently to a ritual that is at once mocking and respectful of death -- and ultimately affirming of human life.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 112 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Pomegranate Communications (Mar. 31st, 1998)

ISBN-10: 0764906194

ISBN-13: 9780764906190

Dimensions: 9.98 x 9.71 x 0.37 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.39 lbs

• Categories: Non Religious Holidays