4/20 Questions- Khani Priest

1. Ofelia Esparza's explains there are three deaths people go through: last breath, burial and when we are forgotten. She says that is the purpose Dia de Los Muetros serves, to remember the dead. Why is altar making such an integral practice in this tradition? Does it serve more than one purpose?
2. At about 2:15 in the "NEA National Heritage Tribute Video", Rosanna Esparza Ahrens mentions there are oral traditions being passed down as well as altar/ofrenda-making practices. Can this be considered a resiliency practice? If so, why and how?
3. On page 85 of "Rhetoric of the Object", "Kay Turner suggests that the home altar has traditionally provided the means of expression for an otherwise silenced female community...". The altar-making is traditionally left to the matriarch of the household. Is this a tradition than can empower the Chicana movement?