SOSA 3013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Folk Catholicism, Family Reunion, Thomas Theorem

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 3013
• Professor: Christopher Helland

Document Summary

The day of the dead (dia de los meurtos) The aztecs set aside a full month to honor their dead - with cultural contact, the spanish priests moved the celebration to coincide with all saints day and all souls day (nov 1st and nov 2nd) This type of "folk catholicism" sees the dead as intermediaries between the living and. The day of the dead becomes a type of family reunion and is seen as a celebration. Halloween developed as a festival due to cultural contact between christianity and the. The basis of the holiday is samhain - this was new years day and was celebrated on nov. The celts believed that during samhain the gates that separated the worlds of the living and the dead were opened - and the souls of those who had died during the last year could move onto the otherworld.