TARASCAN

təräˈskən, Native Americans of the state of Michoacán, Mexico. Their language has no known relation to other languages, and their history prior to the 16th cent. is poorly understood. The polity present at the time of the Spanish conquest (1521) had roughly the same territorial outline as the contemporary state of Michoacán, which it successfully defended against a protracted and bloody Aztec attack in the year 1479. Their capital, Tzintzuntzán [place of the hummingbirds], was located on the shore of Lake Pátzcuaro and had a population of 25,000 to 35,000. Peculiar to Tarascan culture were T-shaped pyramids, rising in terraces and faced with stone slabs without mortar. They were skilled weavers, and were famous for their feathered mosaics made from hummingbird plumage. Most of the over 100,000 contemporary Tarascans are impoverished residents of small rural communities who supplement agricultural production with craft specializations (e.g., weaving, embroidery, woodworking, and lacquerware) and seasonal migration to the United States.

See R. A. M. van Zantwijk, Servants of the Saints (1967); I. R. Dinerman, Migrants and Stay-at-Homes (1982); J. B. Warren, The Conquest of Michoacan (1985).

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books on: Tarascan  - 244 results

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Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy: Latino Migrants Crossing the Linguistic Border
Book by Tomás Mario Kalmar; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000
Subjects: Adult Education--United States, Bilingualism--United States, English Language--Alphabet, English Language--Self-Instruction, English Language--Study And Teaching--Spanish Speakers, English Language--Study And Teaching--United States, Hispanic Americans--Education, Hispanic Americans--Language, Languages In Contact--United States
Tarascan and settled in Cheran, Michoacan. (In 1980, Tarascans...all agreed spoke a purer and more correct variety of Tarascan than any indio. He had read the old old books the Tarascan-Spanish dictionaries compiled by Vasco de Quiroga...
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Language, Context, and the Imagination: Essays
Book by Paul Friedrich, Anwar S. Dil; Stanford University Press, 1979
Subjects: Anthropological Linguistics, Poetry, Proto-Indo-European Language, Russian Language--Social Aspects
2. Social Context Tarascan is an American Indian language, genetically...forty to fifty of the 116 culturally Tarascan communities, and also by numerous...contiguous dialects, the pressure to drop Tarascan exerted by the Spanish-speaking mestizo...
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Synoptic Studies of Mexican Culture
Book by Munro S. Edmonson, Glen Fisher, Pedro Carrasco, Eric R. Wolf; Middle American Research Institute, 1957
Subjects: Community Development--Mexico, Indians Of Mexico--Social Life And Customs, Mexico--Civilization
...organization is definitely changing. ETHNIC CULTURES TARASCAN The accessibility of Tarascan Michoacan to the capital of the Republic has...ever stopped to write a general ethnography of Tarascan culture. While we possess several studies of...
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The Princes of Naranja: An Essay in Anthrohistorical Method
Book by Paul Friedrich; University of Texas Press, 1986
Subjects: Local Government--Mexico, Political Anthropology--Mexico, Villages--Mexico
...five generally have a fluent command of Tarascan and speak it at home. These men passed...this age-grade. For them speaking Tarascan is a political symbol; as we have seen...ranges from a fair passive knowledge of Tarascan, as in the case of Aquiles, to a command...
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Handbook of Hispanic Source Materials and Research Organizations in the United States
Book by Ronald Hilton; Stanford University Press, 1956
Subjects: Civilization, Hispanic
...of hollow clay with vent in tail; Tarascan civilization, from Colima. Emaciated...with many ornaments; painted clay; Tarascan civilization from Nayarit. Fluted vase with parrot effigy legs; Tarascan from state of Colima. Incense burner...
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journal articles on: Tarascan  - 44 results

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Impacts of Transportation Changes on the Woodworking Industry of Mexico's Purepecha Region
Journal article by Paul Marr, Christopher Sutton; The Geographical Review, Vol. 94, 2004
Subjects: Mexico--Buildings and facilities, Mexico--Economic aspects, Woodworking industry--History
...referred to the Purepechan people as "Tarascan Indians." 2. Traffic moving through...that Capacuaro had 100 percent native Tarascan speakers around 1750, 1800, and 1940...Concepts and Economic Opportunity in a Tarascan Village: Emic and Etic Views. Human...
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Beyond the Grave: the Twentieth-century Afterlife of West Mexican Burial Effigies
Journal article by Judy Sund; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 82, 2000
Subjects: Art, Art criticism, Ceramics, Collectors, Culture, History, Mexico, Sculpture
...distinctive ceramic production he called Tarascan-a misleading label that stuck for decades...constellation of cultures that predated the Tarascan kingdom by a millennium; today, they...carvings.12 Similarly, when several "Tarascan" effigies were included in the Museum...
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Geographical Origins of the Tarascans
Journal article by Vincent H. Malmstrom; The Geographical Review, Vol. 85, 1995
Subjects: Culture--Origin, Mexican native peoples--Origin, Michoacan, Mexico--Demographic aspects
...which they are generally known today, Tarascan, although this misnomer perpetuates...Israel, the Spanish realized that the Tarascan question added an entirely new dimension...of geography and anthropology in the Tarascan region. New Mexico Anthropologist 6...
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Huichol Society before the Arrival of the Spanish
Journal article by Phil C. Weigand, Acelia Garcia De Weigand; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 42, 2000
Subjects: Archaeology--Research, Huichols--History, Mexican native peoples--History, Native Americans (Mexico)--History, Nayarit, Mexico--History
...After a fitful beginning in the trans-Tarascan zone, the Nueva Galicia rebellion itself...well-organized Caxcans and trans-Tarascan groups. For example, we know that Tenamaxtli...and southwest, and the small trans-Tarascan states such as Guaxacate in the south...
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The Posadas in Tzintzuntzan Structure and Sentiment in a Mexican Christmas Festival
Journal article by Stanley Brandes; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 96, 1983
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...community is located on the eastern edge of Tarascan territory, and in fact was largely Tarascan in ethnic composition until the beginning...locus of the grandest, most important sacred Tarascan rituals. Even today, the five yacatas...
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Paricutin Sparks a Miraculous Pilgrimage
Magazine article by Louis Werner; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 43, May-June 1991
Subjects: Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Mexico, Folklore--Religious aspects, Gutierrez, Celedonio--Records and correspondence, Michoacan, Mexico--Natural disasters, San Juan Nuevo, Mexico--History, Volcanoes--Social aspects
...about the new volcano of Paricutin, a Tarascan word meaning "the other side of the...Parangaricutiro and those in the surrounding Tarascan farming hamlets, were never to be the...unknown cut down and burned the cross. A Tarascan tharepeti, or council of patriarchs...
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History Moving North: As Mexican Society Fragments, the Impact Will Hit the United States with Force
Magazine article by Robert D. Kaplan; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 279, February 1997
Subjects: Mexico--Social aspects
...Cortes pitted several Indian groups against the Aztecs on his way to vanquishing the Aztecs in 1521. In much of the west the Tarascan Indians were a law unto themselves. Mexicos northwestern desert in the vicinity of the current U.S. border--the forsaken...
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History Moving North
Magazine article by Robert D. Kaplan; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 279, February 1997
Subjects: Emigration and immigration law--Political aspects, Immigration law--Political aspects, Job creation--Mexico, Mexican-American Border Region--Forecasts and trends, Mexico--Forecasts and trends
...Cortes pitted several Indian groups against the Aztecs on his way to vanquishing the Aztecs in 1521. In much of the west the Tarascan Indians were a law unto themselves. Mexicos northwestern desert in the vicinity of the current U.S. border-the forsaken...
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Warning: The Surgeon General May Be Good for Your Health
Magazine article by Paul Glastris; Washington Monthly, Vol. 19, March 1987
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)--Public opinion, Koop, C. Everett--Social policy, Sex education for children--Social aspects, United States. Public Health Service--Officials and employees
...build a medical school in Ghana, fight a dysentery epidemic in the Dominican Republic, and bring primary medical care to the Tarascan Indians of southwestern Mexico. (None of this impressed APHA). Most of Koops associates tolerated the arrogancethat came...


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El Bajio Heartland Takes Visitors on Journey through 1800s Fight for Independence
Newspaper article by Richard Wightman; The Washington Times, April 24, 1999
Subjects: Mexico
...the 3-mile-by-12-mile Lago de Patzcuaro. Janitzio, an island in the center of the lake, is the exclusive domain of Tarascan Indians. A statue of the hero Morelos rises 130 feet from the highest point of the island. Inside, a staircase twists past...
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A Mexican Butterfly Effect
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), April 9, 2005
...have come off a Spanish galleon, and local crafts. Despite the influence of the New World adventurers, Michoacans native Tarascan culture remains potent today, from the traditional dress still worn in nearby villages to the Purepecha language inscriptions...
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A Second Sister City
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 13, 2010
Subjects: International cooperation
...it boasts a robust and historic downtown with cobblestone streets, stone benches and large fountains that highlight its Tarascan Indian descendants. "There is a growing diversity in Naperville," Siddiqi said. "In recent times, it has become the...
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Magical Mexico
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), May 7, 2005
...of restoration efforts across the city and beyond. Despite the influence of the New World adventurers, Michoacans native Tarascan culture remains potent today, from the traditional dress still worn in nearby villages to the Purepecha language inscriptions...


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encyclopedia articles on: Tarascan  - 6 results

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Tarascan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TARASCAN t ra sk n, Native Americans of the state of Michoacan, Mexico. Their...Lake Patzcuaro and had a population of 25,000 to 35,000. Peculiar to Tarascan culture were T-shaped pyramids, rising in terraces and faced with stone...
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PÁtzcuaro
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PATZCUARO pat skwaro, lake, c.100 sq mi (260 sq km) Michoacan state, W Mexico. Its indented shores, dotted with Tarascan villages, green islands, and the curious native sailboats help make Lake Patzcuaro popular as a resort. The lake is rich...
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Natives, Middle American
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...American. Today the descendants of the above-mentioned Native American groups, as well as such peoples as the Huastec , the Tarascan , the Yaqui , and the Tarahumara , constitute a powerful cultural and economic element of Mexican life. See J. A. Graham...
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Aztec
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...intermittent, and the Tlaxcala people later became allies of the Spanish against the Aztec. Only in the west, where the Tarascan Indians severely defeated them, did the Aztec completely fail to conquer. The Aztec Civilization By absorption of other cultural...
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Tzintzuntzan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TZINTZUNTZAN see Tarascan . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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