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Masewaltlatzotzontli

Masewaltlatzotzontli

By Jesús Alberto Flores Martínez Description: In the community of Reyixtla, Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz, Celerino Hernández Pascuala and his family continue to preserve traditional Nahua sones, as well as the costumbre known as elotlamanilistli, performed to...
Archive of Indigenous languages of Latin America

Archive of Indigenous languages of Latin America

https://ailla.utexas.org Description:AILLA is a digital archive that preserves and provides access to recordings and texts of Indigenous languages from Latin America. Its mission is to protect these materials and make them accessible to Indigenous communities,...
“Karst”

“Karst”

By Ajanbel (Maya) Description: A bilingual Maya-Spanish rap project from the city of Felipe Carrillo Puerto in Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is inspired by the environmental and social history of the Maya territory in the Yucatán Peninsula. This particular song focuses on...
Place-Names in Mexico-Tenochtitlan

Place-Names in Mexico-Tenochtitlan

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

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...