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Now We Are Civilized: A Study of the World View of the Zapotec Indians of Mitla, Oaxaca

Book by Charles M. Leslie; Wayne State University Press, 1960

Subjects:

Zapotec Indians

Collections: History, Entire Library

...A Study of the World View of the Zapotec Indians of Mitla, Oaxaca DETROIT...Eleanor Briggs courteously helped us in the Zapotec language. In addition, during our stay...better be "Studies in the World View of the Zapotec Indians of Mitla, Oaxaca," or, abandoning...
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Zapotec Renaissance: Ethnic Politics and Cultural Revivalism in Southern Mexico

Book by Howard Campbell; University of New Mexico Press, 1994

Subjects:

Zapotec Indians--Ethnic Identity, Zapotec Indians--Politics And Government

Collections: History, Entire Library

...which approximately 80 percent are Zapotecs. The city sprawls out from all sides...fight back against steep odds. The Zapotecs of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and...Zapotec history, and a "united front" of Zapotecs struggling against mestizo outsiders...
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Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitan, Mexico

Book by Jeffrey W. Rubin; Duke University Press, 1997

Subjects:

Central-Local Government Relations--Mexico, Zapotec Indians--Politics And Government

Collections: Entire Library

...and gender alliances through which Zapotecs have negotiated inequality and conflict...ethnicity emerged in a context of Isthmus Zapotecs resistance to outside incursions and...location of retreat and defense for Zapotecs from the Valley of Oaxaca in the...
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Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant

Book by Ramón Tianguis Pérez, Dick J. Reavis; Arte Publico Press, 1991

Subjects:

Alien labor, Mexican--United States--Biography, Illegal aliens--United States--Biography, Perez, Ramaon--(Tianguis), Zapotec Indians--United States--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

This autobiographical account of survival as a "wetback" or "mojado," affords the reader an unexpurgated look at the United States, its economy and culture from the perspective of the undocumented worker.
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The Story of the American Indian

Book by Paul Radin; Liveright Publishing, 1944

Subjects:

Indians, Indians Of North America, Indians Of South America, Mayas--Antiquities

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Everything here bespeaks an old culture. With these people, the Zapotecs and Mixtecs, our problems properly begin. Is this the...we merely near the goal? If not the originators these Zapotecs and Mixtecs are at least the intermediaries between the...

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Flexible Production, Households, and Fieldwork: Multisited Zapotec Weavers in the Era of Late Capitalism(1)

Journal article by W. Warner Wood; Ethnology, Vol. 39, 2000

Subjects:

Zapotecs--Economic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...HOUSEHOLDS, AND FIELDWORK: MULTISITED ZAPOTEC WEAVERS IN THE ERA OF LATE CAPITALISM...and international ethnic art markets, Zapotec weavers have become more closely tied...dispersed schemes of production. Some Zapotec families have responded to such flexibility...
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Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca

Journal article by Jeffrey H. Cohen; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 10, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Zapotec science: farming and food in the northern Sierra of Oaxaca (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca. by Jeffrey H. Cohen GONZALEZ, ROBERTO J. Zapotec science: farming and food in the northern Sierra of Oaxaca...and engaging ethnography of traditional farming among the Zapotec of Oaxaca, Mexicos Rincon (the mountainous area in the...
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"Barrio" as a Metaphor for Zapotec Social Structure

Journal article by Gregory F. Truex; Ethnology, Vol. 35, 1996

Subjects:

Mexican native peoples--Social aspects, Social structure--Analysis, Zapotecs--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

"Barrio" as a metaphor for Zapotec social structure by Gregory...divisions of the Villa of Santa Maria, a Zapotec town in the Valley of Oaxaca, are not...lower barrio are more Indio, speak more Zapotec, and are generally backward. Empirical...
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Zapotec Hieroglyphic Writing

Journal article by Brian Stross; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 9, 2003

Subjects:

Zapotec Hieroglyphic Writing (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Entire Library

Zapotec hieroglyphic writing. by Brian Stross URCID SERRANO, JAVIER. Zapotec hieroglyphic writing. xviii, 486 pp., maps, figs., tables...southeastern Mexico and Guatemala by half a millennium, the Zapotec hieroglyphic writing system apparently originated in the...
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Stories from the Field, Handicraft Production, and Mexican National Patrimony: A Lesson in Translocality from B. Traven(1)

Journal article by W. Warner Wood; Ethnology, Vol. 39, 2000

Subjects:

Hand weaving--Mexico, Oaxaca, Mexico (State)--Art, Textile art--Mexico, Traven, B--Works, Zapotecs--Art

Collections: Entire Library

...are commonly described as being made by Zapotec artisans in the home workshops of Teotitlan...a characterization of the location of Zapotec textile production, however, limits our understanding of how this community (and Zapotec weavers) are immersed in transnational...

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Not Aztec, Not Mayan, Zapotec Sculpture from Oaxaca

Magazine article by Pamela Hellwege; School Arts, Vol. 93, April 1994

Subjects:

Mexican native peoples--Art, Sculpture, Primitive--Study and teaching, Zapotecs--Art

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Not Aztec, not Mayan, Zapotec sculpture from Oaxaca by Pamela...or nonverbal symbol, is typical of Zapotec art created before 900 AD. Although...C glyph headdress identifying it as Zapotec. The central enclosed area has a wavy...
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The Olympus of Oaxaca: The Remains of Impressive Zapotec Temples and Pyramids at Monte Alban Testify to the Glorious Past of a Culture Whose Creativity Endures Even Today

Magazine article by Marc Alexander; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 57, September 2005

Subjects:

Ancient cities--Description and travel, Ancient cities--History, Monte Alban (Ancient city)--Description and travel, Monte Alban (Ancient city)--History

Collections: Entire Library

...the ceremonial capital of Mexicos Zapotecs, who labored under the sweltering...Oaxaca Valley? An ancient people, the Zapotecs were generally known by the Nahuatl...Tikal of the Maya lowlands, and the Zapotecs enjoyed centuries of peace and prosperity...
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Oaxaca Where or What Is That?

Magazine article by Jinx Hastings; School Arts, Vol. 100, October 2000

Subjects:

Art teachers--Planning, Art--Study and teaching, Zapotecs--Art

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...population, food, climate, or geography. My goal was to have students make whimsical animals based on the traditions of the Zapotec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico. Students began with two realistic sketches of animals showing gesture and character. These animals...
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Mexico A Grassroots Challenge

Magazine article by Alison Gardy; Report on the Americas, Vol. 26, 1992

Subjects:

Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America

Collections: Entire Library

...years ago to the Aztecs failed attempt to conquer the Zapotecs of Juchitan in the face of fierce local opposition...continues today. Juchitecos often refer to Juchitan by its Zapotec name, Shavicende, and they have unofficially renamed...
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Andres Henestrosa from Fables to Fame: This Self-Taught Mexican Writer Captures the Folktales and Lore of His Indigenous Heritage, Lifting Them to New Heights as Literary Works

Magazine article by Caleb Bach; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 57, March 2005

Subjects:

Artists--Biography, Henestrosa, Andres--Works, Literature--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...great Mexican artists also steeped in the lore of the Zapotecs. Photographer Graciela Iturbide provided images of people...11 loudly (he is a bit hard of hearing). "My mother was Zapoteca--Martina Henestrosa--everyone called her Tina Man. As...

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Return to Oaxaca

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), February 3, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the region, and rediscovering once popular sites. Just outside the city along the road to Teotitlan, visitors will find the Zapotec and Mixtec ruins of Mitla and Yagul, and just a bit further on is Hierve el Agua, a kind of giant outdoor stalagmite in the...
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Popcorn Cornucopia Lake Forest Company Goes for Guinness World Record

Newspaper article by Lee A. Litas; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 7, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...found dates back about 5,600 years and was discovered in the "Bat Cave" of central New Mexico. - In the 4th Century A.D., a Zapotec funeral urn found in Mexico dating to about 300 A.D. depicts a Maize god with symbols representing primitive popcorn in his...
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Rebels Flee to Mexico, Weaken Emperor

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 24, 2004

Subjects:

Napoleon III, Emperor of France

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and the violence of the war in Mexico between the emperors forces and the opposition, led by Benito Juarez. Juarez was a Zapotec Indian and the elected president, who had been forced out by the French invasion. He was re-elected in 1867 and died of heart...
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Fresh Sheet

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), September 24, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, LaVerne Krause Gallery. Vida Nueva Weaving Cooperative, show and sale of handmade wool rugs by Zapotec women from Oaxaca, Mexico, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday, Unitarian Universalist Church. TICKET WINDOW De La Soul, 8 p.m. Nov...
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Oscars Only a Sideshow; Lila Downs Sings Her 'World Music'

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 20, 2003

Subjects:

Kahlo, Frida

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...her husband, tenor saxophonist and onetime professional juggler Paul Cohen, she has set the ancient codices of the Mixtec and Zapotec to music. And shes working on a project about Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. What has emerged from all this is a...

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Zapotec

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...state of Juchitan. See H. Augur, Zapotec (1954); M. Kearney, The Winds of Ixtepeji (1972); B. Chinas, The Isthmus Zapotecs (1973). ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed...
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Oaxaca , City, Mexico

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Aztec tradition, Oaxaca was founded as Huasyacac in 1486, during the brief ascendancy of the Aztecs over the Mixtecs and Zapotecs; the present city was laid out by Spanish conquerors in 1529. Prominent in the Mexican revolution against Spain, the city...
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Mitla

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...met la Nahuatl,=abode of the dead, religious center of the Zapotec , near Oaxaca, SW Mexico. Probably built in the 13th cent...frescoes, Mitla is thought to represent the highest expression of Zapotec architectural talent, although the mosaics have been attributed...
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Monte AlbÁn

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...from Oaxaca, SW Mexico, capital of the Zapotec . Monte Alban was built on an artificially...Mexican archaeologist Alfonso Caso . The Zapotec apparently had an advanced culture here...ascendancy of the Mixtec , when the Zapotec were driven from Monte Alban and Mitla...
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Mixtec

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...they had overshadowed their rivals, the Zapotec . The Mixtec produced some of the finest...noticeable in Mitla and Monte Alban , Zapotec cities taken by the Mixtec during the...alliance to defeat the Aztec , but the Zapotec soon teamed up with the Aztec and eventually...

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