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The tale of Rabbit and Coyote
Rabbit outwits Coyote in this Zapotec tale which explains why coyotes howl at the moon.
Zapotecs on the Move
2013,2019
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.
Zapotec and Mixe use of tropical habitats for securing medicinal plants in Mexico
by
Frei, B
,
Sticher, O
,
Heinrich, M
in
American Indians
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Anthropogenic factors
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Cognitive problems, arts and sciences, folk traditions, folklore
2000
Medicinal plants are essential in the medical systems of the Mixe and Zapotec. In this study ethno-ecological strategies, employed by the two neighboring Indian groups in Mexico, for obtaining medicinal plants are analyzed. The indigenous classification of the environment is notably different from the Western one and distinguishes six dissimilar principal \"zones\" or land use types. Most ethnomedically important species are cultivated in the \"house garden\" or gathered in the community or its immediate surroundings. The house garden, for example, contributes 31.8% and 26.2% of all medical taxa for the Mixe and Zapotec, respectively. These ethnobotanical data on the indigenous uses indicate that anthropogenic types of vegetation yield the largest percentage of medicinal taxa. / Plantas medicinales son una parte esencial de los sistemas médicos de los Mixe y Zapotecos. En este estudio se analizan las estrategias etnoecológicas empleadas por los dos grupos indigenas vecinos para obtener plantas medicinales. La clasificación indigena del ambiente es notablemente diferente de la clasificación occidental y distingue seis zonas principales disimilares (o tipos de uso de la tierra). La mayoria de las especies de importancia etnomédica se cultiva en los solares o se recolecta en la comunidad o en la zona alrededor de la comunidad. El solar, por ejemplo, contribuye 31.8% y 26.2% de todas las plantas mediciniales de los Mixe y Zapotecos, respectivamente. Estos datos etnobotánicos sobre el uso indigena de la tierra indican que los tipos de vegetación antropogénica son muy importantes para la obtención de la gran mayoria de las plantas medicinales. / Arzneipflanzen sind ein wesentlicher Bestandteil des Medizinsystems der Mixe und Zapoteken. In dieser Untersuchung werden die ethnoökologischen Strategien, die von den beiden Indianergruppen zur Sicherstellung einer ausreichenden Versorgung mit Arzneipflanzen eingesetzt werden, untersucht. Die indigene Klassifizierung der Umwelt unterscheidet sich deutlich von der westlichen und differenziert sechs verschiedene Landnutzungszonen. Die meisten arzneilich wichtigen Taxa werden auf den Höfen angebaut oder direkt im Ort oder seiner direkten Umgebung gesammelt. Der Hof liefert beispielsweise 31.8% bzw. 26.2% aller Arzneipflanzen der Mixe bzw. der Zapoteken. Diese ethnobotanischen Informationen über die indigenen Verwendungsstrategien zeigen, dass anthropogene Landnutzungsformen den grössten Anteil an arzneilich genutzten Taxa liefern.
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