“This is a revival!” festival organizer Caru Das declared from the main stage. Repeatedly throughout the two days of the Spanish Fork Festival of Colors at the Sri Sri Radha …
My notes from the feast of El Senor de los Milagros are a haphazard collection of the fury of discoveries, queries, emotions and realizations that came upon me that weekend …
On October 19, 2014, Archbishop of Los Angeles José Gómez celebrated a special mass for el Señor de los Milagros, or the Lord of Miracles, referring to the image as …
Unique yet similar stories constellate the embodied experience of the devotion of the Lord of the Miracles across the world. Many years ago a ‘troublesome’ fellow Peruvian was standing by …
Californians now have a way to honor and remember their dead. We no longer have to mourn them in private. The Day of the Dead public altar creates intimacy and …
The following constitute a series of “theoretical sketches” which attempt, in a non-exhaustive manner to identify and distill some of the key nodal points of the anthropology of the Day …
As gentrification and economic development threaten immigrant spaces and histories in Santa Ana, activists have engaged local community to claim their place in the city by contesting governmental policies through …
The aborigine, apparently uninjured, climbed quickly into the skiff, and seizing the spear with me helped to hold off the infuriated creature. Blood from the wounded reptile was now …
The aborigine, apparently uninjured, climbed quickly into the skiff, and seizing the spear with me helped to hold off the infuriated creature. Blood from the wounded reptile was now …