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Not Just Halloween: Festivals of the Dead From Around the World URL: http://edsitement.neh.gov/monthly_feature.asp?id=116 Description: This classroom feature "can be used as a framework for discussing with your students Festivals of the Dead in their manifestations across different cultures." It features discussion of and links to websites on Halloween's origins in the Celtic festival of the dead (Samhain), Japan's Festival of Lanterns (Obon), Mexico's Days of the Dead (Los Dias de los Muertos), and more. From EDSITEment, a website of the National Endowment for the Humanities. LII Topics: Day of the Dead, Festivals, Halloween, Holidays and Observances Individually Publisher: National Endowment for the Humanities Extra Keywords Pak Ben Cambodia LII Database Information: Record 26876 created by Jennifer English on 09/09/2008 Last modification on 10/27/2008 Published: 10/30/2008 Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26876 |
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