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The moral economy: doing democracy via Day of the Dead rituals
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The moral economy: doing democracy via Day of the Dead rituals

Regina Marchi
Doing democracy: activist art and cultural politics, pp.75-96
SUNY Press
12/2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7282/00000077

Abstract

Activism Art, ritual communication, alternative media, invented tradition, moral economy Chicanos
This book chapter traces the emergence of public, secular Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) celebrations in the US within the context of the Chicano Movement, analyzing them as alternative media that express a moral economy (E.P Thompson) form of social protest.
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