The Isthmus Zapotecs

Author : Beverly Chiñas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UOM:39076000673793

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The Isthmus Zapotecs by Beverly Chiñas Pdf

Author : Judith Francis Zeitlin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804733880

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Cultural Politics in Colonial Tehuantepec by Judith Francis Zeitlin Pdf

This book is a historical and archeological examination of the Isthmus Zapotec state, which was established at Tehuantepec in late prehispanic times through a campaign of conquest and colonization, and the responses that its descendant populations made to the complex political, economic, and cultural changes introduced by Spanish colonialism. Although the modern-day Isthmus Zapotecs are renowned in Mexico and among Latin Americanists for their vibrant cultural traditions and their legacy of political resistance, only isolated elements of the complex historical processes by which these patterns emerged have been studied previously. Using complementary archival and archeological sources, the book details the transformation of Isthmus Zapotec society under colonialism and the enduring structures through which its members redefined their political autonomy.

Author : Beverly Chiñas
Publisher : Harcourt Brace College Publishers
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000465026

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The Isthmus Zapotecs by Beverly Chiñas Pdf

Originally published: Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1992.

Author : Anya Peterson Royce
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438436791

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Becoming an Ancestor by Anya Peterson Royce Pdf

Powerful and beautifully written, this is the story of the Isthmus Zapotecs of southern Mexico and their unbroken chain of ancestors and collective memory over the generations. Mortuary beliefs and actions are collective and pervasive in ways not seen in the United States, a resonant deep structure across many domains of Zapotec culture. Anthropologist Anya Peterson Royce draws upon forty years of participant research in the city of Juchitán to offer a finely textured portrait of the vibrant and enduring power of death in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec of Mexico. Focusing especially on the lives of Zapotec women, Becoming an Ancestor highlights the aesthetic sensibility and durability of mortuary traditions in the past and present. An intricate blending of Roman Catholicism and indigenous spiritual tradition, death through beliefs and practices expresses a collective solidarity that connects families, binds the living and dead, and blurs the past and present. A model of ethnographic research and presentation, Becoming an Ancestor not only reveals the luminescent heart of Zapotec culture but also provides important clues about the cultural power and potential of mortuary traditions for all societies.

Author : A. Scott Britton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173014419258

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Zapotec-English/English-Zapotec (Isthmus) Concise Dictionary by A. Scott Britton Pdf

Isthmus Zapotec, one of at least six known varieties of Zapotec, claims the largest number of speakers in the Zapotecean family. It is spoken in Oaxacam in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and in the state's capital city, Oaxaca de Juarez. This is the first dictionary of Isthmus Zapotec to be published in English. In addition to over 5, 000 entries -- with etymological notes given when entry words derive from Spanish -- the dictionary contains detailed yet concise sections covering spelling and pronunciation, as well as the major points of Isthmus Zapotec grammar.

Author : Miguel Covarrubius
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000149661

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Mexico South by Miguel Covarrubius Pdf

This book deals with the modern, northern half of the Isthmus, its social struggles and its varied problems in adapting a backward region to the need and ways of industrial civilization. It presents a view of the modern Isthmus Zapotecs, living around Juchitan and Tehuantepec.

Author : Michael Lind
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607323747

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Ancient Zapotec Religion by Michael Lind Pdf

Ancient Zapotec Religion is the first comprehensive study of Zapotec religion as it existed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on the eve of the Spanish Conquest. Author Michael Lind brings a new perspective, focusing not on underlying theological principles but on the material and spatial expressions of religious practice. Using sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish colonial documents and archaeological findings related to the time period leading up to the Spanish Conquest, he presents new information on deities, ancestor worship and sacred bundles, the Zapotec cosmos, the priesthood, religious ceremonies and rituals, the nature of temples, the distinctive features of the sacred and solar calendars, and the religious significance of the murals of Mitla—the most sacred and holy center. He also shows how Zapotec religion served to integrate Zapotec city-state structure throughout the valley of Oaxaca, neighboring mountain regions, and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Ancient Zapotec Religion is the first in-depth and interdisciplinary book on the Zapotecs and their religious practices and will be of great interest to archaeologists, epigraphers, historians, and specialists in Native American, Latin American, and religious studies.

Author : Judith M. Brueske
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Indians of Mexico
ISBN : UCR:31210007199480

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The Petapa Zapotecs of the Inland Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico by Judith M. Brueske Pdf

Author : Bruce Stores
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440174873

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The Isthmus by Bruce Stores Pdf

Mexican history is as tortured and crooked (in both senses of the word) as an ox cart trail--unexpected turns around every corner, replete with bumps and declivities. The casual reader of general Mexican history will find it difficult keeping up with the list of Mexico s principal characters over the centuries, now expanding, then suddenly contracting due to assassinations, exiles, military defeats, and alliances gone awry. Oaxacan writer Bruce Stores solves that problem by employing a simple technique used for millennia by the local indigenous peoples: storytelling. His take on historical fiction paints a human, everyday face on the historian s cold mask of dates, places, and wars. Structuring his book around key historical events, he asks--and answers--the questions: How did that feel? Who was affected? What happened to the community, the families? The focus of this book, as its title implies, is the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the bottom of the scorpion s tail of Mexican geography. At its narrowest point, it s only approximately 125 miles wide, spanning the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific, making the Isthmus an early, much-courted, often-spurned alternative to the Panama Canal. The region s remoteness, heat, and lack of picturesque colonial cities or swank beach resorts have kept tourists far away. And perhaps because of that, and sociological factors as well, the Isthmus has managed to protect its distinct, largely indigenous, culture. Stores explains that culture to us over a 500-year period through the pre-Conquest period with its intertribal warfare to Cortes arrival, the battles for independence from Spain, and the French Intervention. In the modern era, his characters fight political battles from Mexico City s university protests to struggles with the domination of the long-entrenched Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). A common thread for all the stories is the importance of land to the Zapotec people. It defines them. Land ownership in Oaxaca, Gomez told the Judge, has different roots. The system of property rights among the pre-Colombian natives was, without a doubt, antagonistic to the Spaniards sense of private property. Yet to the indigenous peoples, their communal property holdings were as natural to them as night and day. Because their land was the provider of their food, they considered it to be divine. Yes. Their land was to them a god. And, just as the air and the wind belong to everyone, they couldn t come to terms with European notions of private property. '" The Isthmus succeeds in elucidating a little-understood region of Mexico. And its telling of tales brings us closer the fierce human spirit that has withstood and shaped-- its history.

Author : Juan José Bueno Holle
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101290

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Information structure in Isthmus Zapotec narrative and conversation by Juan José Bueno Holle Pdf

This book presents an in-depth description of information structure in Isthmus Zapotec, an Otomanguean language spoken by around 50,000 people in southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico, and represents the first book-length treatment of information structure in a Mesoamerican language. Three main observations motivate the study: Strong documentation and a relatively large and active speaker community create a unique opportunity to document information structure in Isthmus Zapotec and to study the language as it is used by speakers in everyday life;As a tonal and verb-initial language, the examination of Isthmus Zapotec represents a chance to explore the possible combinations of tone, intonation, morphology and verb-initial syntax that may occur in the coding of information structure; andThe close analysis of spontaneous speech in an endangered language contributes to our theoretical understanding of information structure and informs our knowledge of language documentation practices and revitalization efforts. Overall, the analysis presented here demonstrates the value and need for information structure studies to document and analyze naturally-occurring data.

Author : Beverly Chiñas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Indian women
ISBN : OCLC:1315475688

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Isthmus Zapotecs : Women's Roles in Cultural Context by Beverly Chiñas Pdf

Author : Alejandro Cruz Martinez,Rosalma Zubizarreta,Harriet Rohmer,David Schecter
Publisher : Children's Book Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 089239126X

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Mujer Que Brillaba Aún Más Que El Sol : la Leyenda de Lucía Zenteno by Alejandro Cruz Martinez,Rosalma Zubizarreta,Harriet Rohmer,David Schecter Pdf

Retells the Zapotec legend of Lucia Zenteno, a beautiful woman with magical powers who is exiled from a mountain village and takes its water away in punishmen.

Author : Howard Campbell
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002559925

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Zapotec Renaissance by Howard Campbell Pdf

Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western thought. His books were widely read by specialists and the general public, and his influence had been extended by almost continuous public debate over the past 150 years. New York University Press's new paperback edition makes it possible to review Darwin's public literary output as a whole, plus his scientific journal articles, his private notebooks, and his correspondence. This is complete edition contains all of Darwin's published books, featuring definitive texts recording original pagination with Darwin's indexes retained. The set also features a general introduction and index, and introductions to each volume.

Author : Tom DeMott
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0299216403

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Into the Hearts of the Amazons by Tom DeMott Pdf

A provocative travel narrative about one of the world's few matriarchal societies

Author : Miguel Covarrubias
Publisher : New York : A. A. Knopf
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Indians of Mexico
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172011881721

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Mexico South by Miguel Covarrubias Pdf

The artist author has portrayed the nature of the region, in geography, ethnology, anthropology, archaeology, history, economics, plastic arts, literature, music, folklore, religion, food, drink, sexual customs, etc. The result is an evocation of an entire civilization, throwing light upon the history and culture of all Mexico.