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Excess Baggage: Rites of Passage - Mexico

Rites of Passage - Mexico

02/07/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Excess Baggage, Rites of Passage - Mexico

Sandi Toksvig looks at rites of passage and death rituals in Mexico and around the world.

Sandi Toksvig looks at rites of passage around the world with photographer Anders Ryman, death rituals with journalist Sarah Murray and Mexico with author Lucy Neville.

Sandi Toksvig looks at rites of passage with Anders Ryman who spent seven years photographing the ceremonies associated with key events in human life; birth, coming of age, marriage and death from Micronesia to Madagascar and Norway to Nepal. They are joined by author Sarah Murray who has travelled the world looking at rituals associated with death and Lucy Neville whose memoir of her time in Mexico includes her experiences of the Day of the Dead festival and the Saint of Death religious cult.

Producer: Harry Parker.

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