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Ancient Zapotec religion
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ISBN: 145719368X 1607323745 1607323737 9781607323747 9781457193682 9781607323730 Year: 2015 Publisher: Boulder, CO University Press of Colorado

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"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. "--


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Zapotec moves : networks and remittances of U.S.-bound migrants from Oaxaca, Mexico
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ISBN: 9068091387 Year: 1991 Publisher: Amsterdam Koninklijk Nederlands aardrijkskundig genootschap


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Mercurio Yndiano : poema histórico
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ISBN: 607462805X 9786074628050 9786074625288 Year: 2015 Publisher: México, D.F. : El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios,


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Zapotecs on the move : cultural, social, and political processes in transnational perspective
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ISBN: 0813560721 0813560713 Year: 2013 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press,

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Through interviews with three generations of Yalálag Zapotecs ("Yaláltecos") in Los Angeles and Yalálag, Oaxaca, this book examines the impact of international migration on this community. It traces five decades of migration to Los Angeles in order to delineate migration patterns, community formation in Los Angeles, and the emergence of transnational identities of the first and second generations of Yalálag Zapotecs in the United States, exploring why these immigrants and their descendents now think of themselves as Mexican, Mexican Indian immigrants, Oaxaqueños, and Latinos-identities they did not claim in Mexico. Based on multi-site fieldwork conducted over a five-year period, Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez analyzes how and why Yalálag Zapotec identity and culture have been reconfigured in the United States, using such cultural practices as music, dance, and religious rituals as a lens to bring this dynamic process into focus. By illustrating the sociocultural, economic, and political practices that link immigrants in Los Angeles to those left behind, the book documents how transnational migration has reflected, shaped, and transformed these practices in both their place of origin and immigration.


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Historiography of the Bènizàa : the postclassic and early colonial periods (1000-1600 A.D.)
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ISBN: 9057890372 Year: 2000 Volume: 84 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies, Universiteit Leiden,

The Sola valley and the Monte Albán state : a study of Zapotec imperial expansion.
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ISBN: 091570353X 9780915703531 Year: 2002 Volume: 12 36 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan. Museum of anthropology


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The lords of Lambityeco : political evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca during the Xoo phase
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ISBN: 9780870819513 1607327155 1607320428 9781607327158 0870819518 9781607320425 Year: 2010 Volume: *31 Publisher: Boulder : University Press of Colorado,

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"The definitive volume of this Late Classic site... an important contribution to Oaxaca archaeology and to understanding Monte Alb at its peak and during its demise." -Veronica Perez Rodriguez, American Anthropologist


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Vencer la derrota : vivir en la sierra zapoteca de México (1674-1707
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ISBN: 2821827873 6077764361 Year: 2010 Publisher: Centro de estudios mexicanos y centroamericanos

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La investigación se apoya en el archivo judicial de la rica alcaldía mayor de Villa Alta, donde cerca de un centenar de pueblos producía mantas y grana. Entre estas comunidades, la de Yasona - hoy Yatzona - permanece casi desconocida en la documentación antes de 1674 y después de 1707. Pero en ese corto periodo se manifiesta toda una serie de tensiones en lo interno y en lo regional. Los principales nobles (caciques) de Yasona toman la cabeza de dos bandos y manipulan formas rudimentarias de democracia, en pro y en contra de las tradiciones, de la Iglesia, de la autoridad del alcalde mayor. Desde Yasona intentan confederar la oposición política e integran la audiencia de México en su juego con el mecanismo de las reales provisiones. Con la tragedia de Cajonos en 1700, todo queda sesgado y Yasona se reincorpora en la pax hispanica… Durante un breve lapso este grupo humano vive tiempos difíciles ; el pueblo oculta sus prácticas religiosas, las elites se enfrentan y contaminan con sus luchas toda la provincia, las familias se desgarran, las mujeres a veces expresan un estoicismo digno de Sénéca.

Decentering the regime : ethnicity, radicalism, and democracy in Juchitán, Mexico
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ISBN: 0822320509 0822320630 0822378612 Year: 1997 Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press,

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Since 1989 an indigenous political movement—the Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus (COCEI)—has governed the southern Mexican city of Juchitán. In Decentering the Regime, Jeffrey W. Rubin examines this Zapotec Indian movement and shows how COCEI forged an unprecedented political and cultural path—overcoming oppression in the 1970s to achieve democracy in the 1990s. Rubin traces the history and rise to power of this grassroots movement, and describes a Juchitán that exists in substantial autonomy from the central Mexican government and Mexican nationalism—thereby debunking the notion that a state- and regime-centered approach to power can explain the politics of domination and resistance in Mexico.Employing an interdisciplinary approach, Rubin shows that the Juchitecos’ ability to organize and sustain a radical political movement grew out of a century-long history of negotiation of political rule. He argues that factors outside the realm of formal politics—such as ethnicity, language, gender, and religion—play an important part in the dynamics of regional political struggles and relationships of power. While offering a detailed view of the Zapotec community and its interactions, Rubin reconceptualizes democracy by considering the question of how meaningful autonomy, self-government, cultural expression, and material well-being can be forged out of violence and repression.

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