#ZAPOTEC

[last-tarrasque]

Long live Aztlan!

Chicano or Chicana is a chosen identity for many Mexican Americans in the United States.

Chicano was a classist and racist slur used toward low-income Mexicans that was first reclaimed in the 1940s among youth who belonged to the Pachuco subculture. By the 1960s, Chicano was widely reclaimed to express political empowerment, ethnic solidarity, and pride in being of Indigenous descent (with many using the Nahuatl language). 

Chicano developed its own meaning separate from Mexican American identity. Chicano Movement leaders expressed solidarity with the African political struggle and collaborated with the Black Power movement. Chicano youth in barrios rejected cultural assimilation into whiteness and embraced their own identity and worldview as a form of empowerment and resistance.

Prominent journalist Rubén Salazar defined a Chicano as “a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself

In Mexico’s Indigenous regions, Indigenous people refer to members of the non-indigenous majority as mexicanos, referring to the modern nation of Mexico. Among themselves, the speaker identifies by their pueblo (village or tribal) identity, such as Mayan, Zapotec, Mixtec, Huastec, or any of the other hundreds of indigenous groups. A newly emigrated Nahuatl speaker in an urban center might have referred to his cultural relatives in this country, different from himself, as mexicanos, shortened to Chicanos or Xicanos.

[archaeoart]

Ruins at Mitla, Oaxaca, México, circa 1925.

[memories-of-ancients]

Funerary urn with deity, Zapotec, 6th century AD

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[shi-gu]

2025 Year of the Snake 🐍

Here's a Donají with a feathered serpent, inspired on the murals of Huijazoo and Mitla, and Codex Añute. In the Zapotec calendar, it more or less matches with the year 13-Lightning (that's what the glyph to the right means).

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Vessel in the form of a prone creature.

Date: 100 B.C.–A.D. 200

Culture: Zapotec

Period: Formative

Place of origin: Mexico, Oaxaca, Central Valley of Oaxaca

Medium: Fine-grained grayware ceramic

[fyeahtimwalker]

The Muxes of Mexico by Tim Walker for Vogue Mexico and Vogue UK, December 2019

Production by Kate Phelan.

[bom-bombon]

Oaxaca Needs Help!!

Hi, there is currently a fire that started in San Lucas Quiavini, Oaxaca, that has now grown and is burning more Indigenous Zapotec communities. Unfortunately, five volunteers died as a result of the fires: Rafael Antonio Morales, Pedro Curiel Diego, José Hernández López, Felipe García, and Celso Diego. The communities are asking for help.

Here are some places where you can help financially:

For Celso Diego's family

And Emergency Funds right here

If you cannot donate, that is totally fine! Reblogs are very much appreciated!

[eopederson]

Monte Alban, Oaxaca, 1979.

[iloverumpusmcfowl]

i cant belive zapotek and marlin would do this omg i dont think i can support them any longer sorry guys

[desimonewayland]

Zapotec mosaic mask that represents a Bat god, made of 25 pieces of jade, with yellow eyes made of shell. It was found in a tomb at Monte Albán

via: Wikipedia

[exiled-prince]

Today marks 3 years since Onyx Equinox aired. Even though I was late to the party, I'm glad I found this show. Among most of the media set in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, Onyx Equinox is the one of the few with the most historical accuracies. It's a show that inspired me to continue my personal project. Thank you, Sofia.

[local-meme-lord]

More like 100 times over

Hey not all of us literally has a time machine.

Gladstone, Glady, do you really want a answer to that question , because you definitely won't believe it.

[folkfashion]

Zapotec woman, Mexico, by Thomas Aleto

[rapeculturerealities]

Muxes have been defying the gender binary for generations | CNN

Indigenous communities in Mexico have recognized a third gender since before Spanish colonization and its ensuing influence of Catholicism, with anthropologists pointing to Aztec priests who wore clothing associated with another gender and Mayan gods who were both male and female. Today, the muxes of Juchitán are just one of several communities around the world who don’t fit into the gender binary, such as hijras in India, bakla in the Philippines and fa’afafine in Samoa.

[shi-gu]

For the new followers, hi! I'm Camilo and I draw a comic series!

[mexibrenes]