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Gifts from Mexico: Revitalizing Life Through the Day of the Dead Celebration

  • Publication date November 1, 2017
Two women peering at tableware in the Resetting The Table exhibit

November 01, 2017
Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, is a Mexican American historian of religions with particular interest in Mesoamerican cities as symbols, and the Mexican-American borderlands.

Harvard Professor Davíd Carrasco discusses the symbolism and significance of the Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico and its expansion and influence in the United States. The event opens with remarks by Mexico’s Consul General in Boston, Emilio Rabasa Gamboa.