Dead Reckoning or Reckoning with The Dead: Hispanic Catholic Funeral Customs

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Kay Turner, Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women's Altars (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1999), 101. 2. Mark R. Francis and Arturo J. Pérez-Rodríguez, Primero Dios: Hispanic Liturgical Resource (Chicago, Ill.: Liturgical Training Publications, 1997), 128. 3. Juanita Garciagodoy, “Life–Death Dualism in Central Mexican Archeological Artifacts and Days-of-the-Dead Calaveras.” Paper written on October 21, 2001 at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. 4. See Rimas Poulares, collected on the following web sites: http://www.terra.com/turismo/articulo/html/tur2278.htm (September 9, 2005). 5. Laura S. Sanborn, “Camposantos: Sacred Places of the Southwest,” Markers 6 (1989): 172. 6. Lynn Gosnell and Suzanne Gott. “San Fernando Cemetery: Decoration of Love and Loss in a Mexican-American Community.” In Cemeteries and Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture, Richard E. Meyer, ed. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1989), 234. 7. Mitchell Wilder, Camposantos (Fort Worth, Tex.: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1966), 6. Additional informationNotes on contributorsKenneth G. DavisKenneth G. Davis, O.F.M., Conv., is associate professor of pastoral studies at Saint Meinrad School of Theology. See his website http://kennethgdavis.com.