The political lives of the dead and the new places of the disappeared in Mexico
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https://doi.org/10.47456/cadecs.v12i1.47393Abstract
This article seeks to show ethnographically how families of victims of violence in Mexico sustain ‘political lives of the dead’. Political afterlives of the dead are in street protests and at the political altars of the religious festivity the Day of the Dead. However, Mexico has many missing people who were never properly buried and whose families hope they are alive. In this sense, the disappeared are neither dead nor alive and should not be included in the Day of the Dead in the views of their families. Instead, new places at new memorials are built for them, with new rites to maintain the social lives of the missing. These posthumous lives continue the calls for justice perpetually.
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