10/22/13Film: La Ofrenda1. How old saints celebrated by people in Mexicoa. on the first and second of november, old souls visit the living=sacredb. feast of death celebrates the transitory of life and deathi. food cooked for the souls and put on the alterii. the dead return to feast with the family who remembers themc. have shrines of the souls they are remembering in honor of themd. bunch of candles,coffins, and flowers with music at the ceremony where people are mourning/honoring the dead2. How they view the living and the deada. after life place is determined by the way they lived during heir lifeb. the underworld is entered from under the church (in the ruins) with a guide that takes them throughc. life and death were cycles of natured. Calaveras???e. vanities of death mock the livingf. artists in Mexico close to godg. dance in costumes, mock death and gender, celebrate life to remember the dead, play musical instrumentsh. can be free and expose ourselves to the community in the ceremonyi. everyone proposes an offering, even if you are poorj. “offering”=lovek. every dead person has a candle with a ribboni. bigger candle= recent deathl. believe the souls visit them on that day at midnight3. Why is it important that that boundary is brokena. people separated from their culture, it reinforces the attempt to connect each othersince all share the same ancestor4. Old images connected to the newa. death isn’t really talked about in the modern time; it is avoidedb. is given power by people forming a togethernessc. life and death unite all individualsRecitation1. What do we think about death? How we deal with it? How we treat dying?10/22/13a. we avoid itb. mourn about it even if it is for the “right cause or not” to kill someone death is feared by humanityc. try to be happy and remember their life, not deathd. we treat dying by trying to cope with it by togetherness and medicine2. How skeletons, skulls...used/portrayed in the Day of the Dead?a. sell them and used as decorations as fun stuffb. on shrines of the loved ones who aren’t alive anymore along with flowers, pictures,things relative to the personc. dressed up as skeletons and skulls to mock the dead and say “we are all alive”3. How are individuals who have died memorialized?a. shrines, ceremonies, church services...4. Pluralism: multiple religions coexisting5. Sycreticism: religions intertwined and synchronized together to create something
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