1. Primary Source 9:15 - 10:45 am, March 15, 2013
Guest Speaker, Chris Rodriguez
How has Mexico’s history and diversity shaped its
traditions?
1. Mexico’s Geography and Indigenous Roots - Many Mexicos
Mayan Popul Vuh
2. Spanish Conquest and Cultural mestizaje - Many Mexicos
Dias de los muertos
Indigenous, European, and African mestizaje
Virgin Mary of Guadalupe
3. Mexican Revolution and “Racial Homage”
Celebrating Many Mexicos
10. 2. Indigenous
Peoples, 2000
speak at least 1
indigenous language
7.7 million
speak no Spanish
1.3 million
Spanish and 1
indigenous language
5 million
Indigenous languages:
88
18. Tepeu, the Maker
Gucumatz, Feathered Spirit
Perfect Beings must
Worship properly,
Keep days/calendar,
Give gods offerings,
Walk upright,
Reproduce,
Care for each other,
Work, Speak properly
Devine-Social Contract
1. Mud/clay
2. animals
3. wood
4…
19. 4th try, creatures
helped, used white and
yellow corn
Kept calendar,
Gave gods offerings,
Walked upright,
Reproduced,
Cared for each other,
Worked,
Spoke properly,
Worshiped properly
leader sacrificed own blood
Too perfect:
“Breadth on a mirror”
20. When Popol Vuh performed - mirror wiped clean
Maya priests performing
Popul Vuh,
2001 and 1930s
21. Section of oldest Maya mural yet found, 100 BC.
What
strikes
you
about
the
Popul
Vuh
story?
23. Maya Sacred World Tree connected
Spirit and Human worlds
Christian Europeans
told story of the sacrifice
of their God’s son on cross
Maya and others,
“we can relate.”
24. Origin Story
of the Aztecs
(people from Aztlan)
Emerged from
Chicomoztoc
“Place of Seven caves”
25. Chichimecs
Groups of
northern
Mexican peoples
begin migrating
south in
1000s.
Deer skin drawing, ca 1530s
32. 100 miles of artificial lakes Miles of aqueducts
33. Aztec Market: jade, Queztal feathers
Section of
Diego
Rivera
mural, Palac
io
Nacional, M
exico
City, 1930s
Notes de l'éditeur
Begin with song: Juan García de Céspedes (1619 – 1678), CONVIDANDOESTÁ LA NOCHEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbao4A5VFV0Introduction: Many Mexicos overview of geography and major ethnic groups List and map of Languages Spanish North, mixed Middle, indigenous SouthSources: http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/3689-indigenous-languages-in-mexicohttp://www.cdi.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=758&Itemid=68
80% mestizo (Afro-mestizo)10% Indigenous10% European
Possible migration routes to Americas 50,000-12,000 years ago
http://www.charlesmann.org/Extras.htmMann, 1491, 103-105orTawantinsuyu (People of the Four Corners)New studies b/c ariel photos of deforested lands
3. Creation Story from the PopulVuh of the Quiché Maya.My adaptation from Dennis Tedlock, PopolVuh: the Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings (New York: Touchstone Books, 1996).