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For Day of the Dead, many families set up an\u00a0ofrenda<\/em>\u00a0or offering to the spirits of loved ones who have passed away.\u00a0\u00a0In urban areas, skulls and skeletons are popular elements of\u00a0ofrendas<\/em>. In addition to sugar skulls, miniature skeleton figures like these, known as\u00a0calaveritas<\/em>, reenact scenes from daily life. They represent the ancestors and things they liked to do, bringing back happy memories of the deceased. Calaveritas<\/em> can also present social commentary by spoofing the rich and powerful. They are a physical representation of calavera<\/em> poetry, rhyming poems accompanied by satirical cartoons published in newspapers for Day of the Dead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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For Day of the Dead, many families set up an\u00a0ofrenda\u00a0or offering to the spirits of loved ones who have passed away.\u00a0\u00a0In urban areas, skulls and skeletons are popular elements of\u00a0ofrendas. In addition to sugar skulls, miniature skeleton figures like these, known as\u00a0calaveritas, reenact scenes from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"parent":6583,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"overlay_title":false,"hide_featured_image_post":false,"wfu_hide_page_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6589","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCalaveritas - Timothy S. Y. 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