Resumen de El Día de Muertos, el Halloween y la búsqueda deu na identidad nacional mexicana
Day of the Dead in Mexico is a version of the Catholic celebration of All Saint’s Day. This essay analyses the way in which this festivity has been examined —in Mexico as well as abroad— as a unique Mesoamerican legacy and therefore as a symbol of the nation itself. Tourism and international relations have been responsible of this phenomenon. The recent dissemina-tion of Halloween in Mexico has sparked off a symbolic competition in which Halloween has been associated with U.S.A. and the Day of the Dead with Mexico. The presence of Halloween symbols in Mexico has been interpreted as a symptom of a North American Imperialist act of aggression
