Edition:
eHRAF World Cultures
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Content:
This collection about the Zapotec consists of 14 documents, all in English, with a focus on the valley Zapotec of Oaxaca, and with special emphasis on the towns of Mitla, Teotitĺan del Valle, D́iaz Ordaz, San Miguel del Valle, San Sebastian Teitipac, and Talea de Castro. Good overviews of Zapotec ethnography are provided by Nader and Whitecotton. Nader summarizes both Zapotec ethnography and the literature on the Zapotec as of the middle of the 1960s. Whitecotton provides information on prehistory, as well as history and ethnographic research in the area as of the 1960s and 1970s. Two works in the collection are primarily community studies, providing fairly complete ethnographic coverage on the communities investigated. Parsons, based on fieldwork in the 1930s, is a study of Mitla, while Taylor is a study of Teotitĺan del Valle dating to the 1950s. Mitla has received a good deal of attention from ethnologists and further information on the community may be found in Messer and Williams. Control of water resources is an important aspect of land use in the Oaxaca valley. Downing's study concentrates on a single community (D́iaz Ordas) to show how water rights, water usage, and conflicts over water change during the annual cycle with changing water availability and demand. Zapotec ideas about illness and health are discussed in Messer, which also covers the classification and use of plants in Mitla, and the report by O'Nell and Selby, which discusses susto, a debilitating folk illness characterized by depression, loss of appetite, etc., which the authors consider to be a culturally patterned reaction to psychological stress. Other ethnographic topics include inheritance and its effects on social solidarity; changes in women's roles and authority in production, ritual, and local politics from 1920-1989; the production and marketing of mutates; and harmony ideology, with particular reference to justice and social control
Note:
Zapotec - Douglas P. Fry - 2003 -- - Culture summary: Zapotec - Douglas P. Fry - 2003 -- - The Zapotec of Oaxaca - Laura Nader - 1969 -- - The Zapotecs: princes, priests, and peasants - by Joseph W. Whitecotton - 1977 -- - Mitla, town of the souls and other Zapoteco-speaking pueblos of Oaxaca, Mexico - by Elsie Clews Parsons - 1936 [third impression, 1970] -- - Teotilan del Valle: a typical Mesoamerican community - Robert Bartley Taylor, Jr. - 1960 [1979 copy] -- - Sex differences in the incidence of susto in two Zapotec pueblos - Carl N. O'Nell and Henry A. Selby - 1968 -- - Zapotec plant knowledge: classification, uses and communication about plants in Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico - Ellen Messer - 1975 [1979 copy] -- - Irrigation and moisture-sensitive periods: a Zapotec case - Theodore Edmond Downing - 1974 --^
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from hacienda to PRI, political leadership in a Zapotec village - Antonio Ugalde - 1973 -- - Cohesive features of guelagetza system in Mitla - Aubrey Williams - 1979 -- - The social consequences of Zapotec inheritance - Theodore Edmond Dowing - 1979 -- - Teitipac and its metateros: and economic anthropological study of production and exchange in a peasant artisan community in the valley of Oaxaca, Mexico - Howard Scott Cook - 1969 [1979 copy] -- - Zapotec science: farming and food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca - Roberto J. González - 2001 -- - Harmony ideology: justice and control in a Zapotec mountain village - Laura Nader - 1990 -- - Zapotec women - Lynn Stephen - 1991
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
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