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La creación del hombre (mito maya quiché)

La creación del hombre (mito maya quiché)

by | Nov 26, 2025

Description: This animated video presents the K’iche’ (or Quiché) Maya myth of the creation of human beings, drawn from the Popol Vuh, the foundational text of K’iche’ Maya cosmology. In this account, the gods attempt several times to create...
Place-Names in Mexico-Tenochtitlan

Place-Names in Mexico-Tenochtitlan

by | Dec 5, 2025

Description: The place-names that residents of the Mexica capital of Tenochtitlan (today Mexico City) gave to their city were both descriptive of topography and commemorative of history. Largely effaced from the Spanish historical register, Mexico City’s Nahuatl...
Milpa

Milpa

by | Dec 10, 2025

Description: Chef Regina Escalante sources local ingredients from traditional milpa systems and supports urban farming projects to empower her French-style cuisine and invite her consumers to support local products; in this meeting of worlds we are taken deep into the...
Sabores y saberes de la milpa

Sabores y saberes de la milpa

by | Dec 10, 2025

Description: Sabores y saberes de la milpa (Flavours and Knowledge of the Milpa), published in Spanish and Nahuatl, is the product of an extensive collaborative project between two collectives from Mexico City, Casa Gallina and Calpulli Tecalco. The book documents an...
JA CHOMOBICHO BANENI (La última tinaja)

JA CHOMOBICHO BANENI (La última tinaja)

by | May 4, 2026

Description: JA CHOMOBICHO BANENI (La última tinaja) is an 8-minute documentary short co-directed by Gabriela Delgado Maldonado and Bernabé Mahua Fasanando, the first indigenous filmmaker to win the best documentary award from Peru’s Ministry of Culture. It was...