Territorialization of Death in San Basilio de Palenque

...As the song plays over and over again, Rey walks out into the courtyard, body swaying, a white cloth covering his face, crying and shouting "Ay mi ma "e, ay mi ma "e". The aunts try to stop him, but he refuses. The song keeps playing. Finally he reaches the courtyard where he cries; the aunts try to sit him down, but he won't let them. It is two o'clock in the afternoon and the time for the burial is approaching. The children increase the level of crying, the wailing gets louder and louder, Rey bangs on the walls of the courtyard, the neighbors approach, they hold him in their arms, two friends take him to the street and sit him in the house across the street. He is received by an old woman and she lays him down on the floor...