1. Many people with different connections to their Mexican heritage celebrate Día de los Muertos every year. What are the essential aspects of La Ofrenda that can never/will never change as we progress into the future and as the culture becomes more broad to include long-held traditions as well as a variety of newer experiences?
2. When watching "La Ofrenda: Days of the Dead", I was struck by the conversation with young students about death. They were all talking very openly and comfortably about their wishes for themselves and others before they die, and it lead me to wonder when and how did death become taboo in European/US cultures?
3. In the introduction of Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic of Altarities, the author discusses the commonplace omission of the spiritual aspects of art and feminist theory in research or scholarly works. Why and how should we maintain the importance of the spiritual in discussions of social movements, specifically Chicana feminism? What significance does this spirituality hold in current social/cultural spheres of society?
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