Author : Morris Stubblefield
Publisher : Sil International, Global Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 30,43 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Gives a grammatical sketch of Zapotec (Mitla Vallay, Oaxaca, Mexico). This third volume in the series Folklore Texts in Mexican Indian Languages consists of eight stories narrated by native speakers, transcribed phonemically, with glossing in English and free translations in English and Spanish.
Author : Carol Stubblefield
Publisher : Sil International, Global Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 1995-06-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781556715402
Gives a grammatical sketch of Zapotec (Mitla Vallay, Oaxaca, Mexico). This third volume in the series Folklore Texts in Mexican Indian Languages consists of eight stories narrated by native speakers, transcribed phonemically, with glossing in English and free translations in English and Spanish.
Author : Elinor Briggs
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781013656132
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Author : Michael Lind
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1607323745
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 : William R. Arfman
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Ancestor worship
ISBN : 9088900086
In the centre of the Mexican town of Mitla stands a run-down chapel on an overgrown pre-colonial pyramid. The chapel, housing three crosses, is the town's Calvario, the local representation of the hill on which Christ died. Although buses full of tourists on their way to Chiapas or on daytrips from Oaxaca City swarm the town every day almost none of them ever visit the Calvario. Instead they stick to the tourist zone to marvel at the famous mosaic friezes of the pre-colonial temples and shop for traditional souvenirs in the tourist market. If they would climb the steep steps to the chapel they would discover that despite appearances the building still sees extensive use as pilgrims from the wide Zapotec region visit it to bring offerings to and ask favours of the souls of their dearly departed. And as these offerings consist of elaborate arrangements of flowers, fruits, black candles, cacao beans and bundles of copal incense, such tourists might well start to wonder where the origins of these practices lie. It is this question that this thesis seeks to answer. To achieve this, current theories on cultural continuity, syncretism, the materiality of religion and ritual theory are combined with a study of archaeological, historical, iconographical and anthropological sources. In addition ethnographic fieldwork has been conducted to come to a better understanding of the offerings made in the Calvario today. In three parts, the thesis first addresses the history of Mitla as 'The Place of the Dead', then of the Calvario as a ritual location and finally of the offerings for the dead. Combining these three lines of research an interesting image is formed of the continuity of ancestor veneration in this busy tourist town.
Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230615028
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Zapotec people, Zapotec scholars, Zapotec sites, Zapotecan languages, Benito Juarez, Zapotec peoples, Cocijo, Zapotec languages, Mexico Indigena, Lambityeco, Monte Alban, Guiengola, Mitla, Zapotec civilization, Dainzu, San Jose Mogote, Suchilquitongo, Eufrosina Cruz, Yagul, Rufino Tamayo, Rodolfo Morales, Robert N. Zeitlin, Chatino language, San Pablo Huitzo, List of Zapotec languages, Andres Henestrosa, Carlos Merida, Miguel Cabrera, Joseph Whitecotton, Charles S. Spencer, Isthmus Zapotec, Richard Blanton, Joyce Marcus, Quiabelagayo, Kent V. Flannery, Zaachila, Ignacio Bernal, Cosijopii I, Coatlan Zapotec, Cosijoeza, El Palmillo. Excerpt: The Zapotec language(s) are a group of closely related indigenous Mesoamerican languages spoken by the Zapotec people from the southwestern-central highlands of Mexico. Present-day native speakers are estimated to number over half a million, with the majority inhabiting the state of Oaxaca. Zapotec-speaking communities are also found in the neighboring states of Puebla and Guerrero. Emigration has also brought a number of native Zapotec-speakers to the United States, particularly in California. In most Zapotec-speaking communities, Spanish is also spoken. The name of the language in Zapotec itself varies according to the geographical variant. In Juchitan (Isthmus) it is Diidxaza, in Mitla it is Didxsaj, in Zoogocho it is Di a'xon, and in Santa Catarina Quioquitani it is Tiits Se, for example. The first part of these expressions has the meaning 'word' (perhaps slightly reduced as appropriate for part of a compound). Zapotec and the related language Chatino together form the Zapotecan subgroup of the Oto-Manguean language family. Zapotec languages (along with all Oto-Manguean languages) form part of the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area, an area of linguistic convergence...
Author : Ernesto González Licón
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
Reflecting extensive archaeological fieldwork carried out under the author's direction, and richly illustrated throughout, this is the first comprehensive reference on two great but little-known Mesoamerican cultures that flourished for thousands of years in the present-day southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. The Zapotecs were skilled builders who constructed one of early America's most magnificant architectural complexes on the hilltop pf Monte Alban, a site that includes elaborately crafted temples, plaza, tombs and statuary. The nearby Mixtecs lived in smaller units and created fabulous mosaics, sculpture, and jewelry. They also developed a pictographic system of writing, which they drew on exquisite polychrome pottery and deersking codices. Through careful dechiphering and analysis of written, artistic, and architectural remains, Ancient Mesoamericans provides extraordinary glimpses of these two very different societies, their culture, rituals, and daily lives.
Author : Kent V. Flannery
Publisher : Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : History
ISBN :
A case study in the divergent evolution of Mexico's Zapotec and Mixtec civilizations, this collection has become a basic resource in the literature of Mesoamerican prehistory and has been widely cited by scholars working on divergent evolution in other parts of the world. Originally published by Academic Press in 1983, a new introduction by the editors updates the volume in terms of discoveries made during the subsequent two decades.
Author : Frans Ferdinand Blom
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Zapotec language
ISBN :
Author : Karen Dakin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027265712
Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change. This volume presents and analyzes fresh empirical data from living and/or extinct Mesoamerican languages (from the Mayan, Uto-Aztecan, Totonac-Tepehuan and Otomanguean groups), neighboring non-Mesoamerican languages (Apachean, Arawakan, Andean languages), as well as Spanish. Language-contact effects in these diverse languages and language groups are typically analyzed by different subfields of linguistics that do not necessarily interact with one another. It is hoped that this volume, which contains works from different scholarly traditions that represent a variety of approaches to the study of language contact, will contribute to the lessening of this compartmentalization. The volume is relevant to researchers of language contact and contact-induced change and to anyone interested both in the historical development and present features of indigenous languages of the Americas and Latin American Spanish.
