Mr. Lomnitz is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University and the author of “Death and the Idea of Mexico." Joyful. Ironic. Soulful. Intimate. These are some of the words that have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week, houses and streets in Mexico have been decorated with colourful altars, marigold flowers, candles and sugar skulls.

Mexican-American author Luisa Navarro takes readers behind the scenes of a well-known, if often misunderstood, holiday in Mexico’s Day of the Dead: A Celebration of Life Through Stories and Photos.

Spread of La portentosa vida de la muerte by Joaquín Bolaños (all images courtesy Swann Auction Galleries) The living, grinning skeletons we immediately associate today with Day of the Dead ...

URUAPAN, MEXICO (AP) — A mayor in Mexico ’s western state of Michoacan was shot dead in a plaza in front of dozens of people who had gathered for Day of the Dead festivities, authorities said. Local ...

The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds. Ángel Jiménez del Aguila, who died in 2010, need only follow the trail of ...

Pomuch, Mexico, is one of the last places where residents clean their relatives’ bones. Now they are grappling with a new challenge: tourists. Pomuch, Mexico, is one of the last places where residents ...

This weekend, Mexican American families across the U.S. will gather to honor their ancestors with altars, marigolds and sugar skulls on Dia de los Muertos — the Day of the Dead. In recent years, the ...

Towards the end of October and beginning of November, Mexico is awash with the vibrant colors of papel picado and lit by candlelight to welcome a more than 3,000-year-old celebration: Day of the Dead.