#meso america

[stars-and-soda]

This is just me plugging my daily reminder that historically, Mexicans have more right to USA lands than the majority of Americans

[jagzii]

"Tell me why almost every time I learned about a new civilization growing up, I simultaneously learned about its destruction thanks to imperial expansionism. Because the first time I learned about the Mayans was in the context of the Spanish arriving in Meso-America in the 16th century and promptly fucking everything up. Finding out about that was so depressing that I never bothered to look any closer. All of that is changing today because it turns out the Mayan civilization had already experienced a collapse centuries before the Spanish arrived– known as the collapse of the Classic Maya civilization."

Read the rest here:

[jallisonsworld]

"Xibalba"

[harvestheart]

sacred jaguar

[mahgnib]

Mayan ruin, Copan, Honduras

[haganez]

[msamba]

CARNAVALES LAS TABLAS 2023 MARTES CULECOS [Panama]

 

[prancingpedris]

so I genuinely love the energy of the dfl protests but how have clubs not simply...checked bags and pockets for tennis balls?

[cricketcat9]

Because not everything in Meso America

was warriors fighting in combat

A Tlatilca woman carrying her doggie

[stefastral-dusk]

Man I'm so glad to see hoyoverse representing Meso America, Latin America, Africa, Maori and so much more with their upcoming region of Natlan 😍

[murfeelee]

Birds Steal Their Look Pt7b: Mesoamerican/South American Birds

I was inspired by this thread started by tenderanarchist here to turn my TS3 sims into avian fashionistas.

Meso/South American Birds: Andean Cock of the Rock, Cardinal, Harpy Eagle, Inca Jay, Magnificent Frigate, Meadowlark, Ocellated Turkey, Pompadour Cotinga, Roseate Spoonbill, Scarlet Macaw, Steller's Jay, Sun Conure

MY THOUGHTS & CC CREDITS

MY THOUGHTS

I'm starting summer classes next week--BOOOOOO~!--so we'll see how quickly I can do the next parts: North America, and Extinct Birds.

CC CREDITS

- (GENERAL): Avatar eyes & dots @csitaly, Indogene skin @niobecremisi, Mermaid & Sea Skins @niobecremisi, Nose masks (X X X X X X), Eyelashes ACCs (X X), Feather patterns by me, Eyes @chazybazzy

- Ocellated Turkey: Hair, EA Jacket, Pants (IDER), | Necklace in beta by me

- Pompadour Cotinga: Hair, Suit @simtanico

- Roseate Spoonbill: Hair at TSR, Outfit (SFS backup), Boots (IDEK?), Spoon ACC

- Scarlet Macaw: Hair, Earrings, EA Suit + Pattern @ktarsims, Boots (IDER?)

- Steller's Jay: Hair at the Store (X), Earrings (SFS backup), Top, Shrug ACC @rstarsims3, Skirt, Boots

- Sun Conure: Visor ACC, Shades & Hair by EA, Top @rstarsims3, Skirt at MTS, Shoes

[opencommunion]

"My analysis challenges a number of ideas, some mentioned above, common in many Western feminist writings:

Gender categories are universal and timeless and have been present in every society at all times. This idea is often expressed in a biblical tone, as if to suggest that 'in the beginning there was gender.'

Gender is a fundamental organizing principle in all societies and is therefore always salient. In any given society, gender is everywhere.

There is an essential, universal category 'woman' that is characterized by the social uniformity of its members.

The subordination of women is a universal.

The category 'woman' is precultural, fixed in historical time and cultural space in antithesis to another fixed category—'man.'

... Merely by analyzing a particular society with gender constructs, scholars create gender categories. To put this another way: by writing about any society through a gendered perspective, scholars necessarily write gender into that society. Gender, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. The idea that in dealing with gender constructs one necessarily contributes to their creation is apparent in Judith Lorber's claim that 'the prime paradox of gender is that in order to dismantle the institution, you must first make it very visible.' In actuality, the process of making gender visible is also a process of creating gender. Thus, scholarship is implicated in the process of gender-formation."

Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (1997) ~

"Feminist anthropologists of racialized peoples in the Americas tend not to think about the concept of gender when they use the term as a classificatory instrument, they take its meaning for granted. This, I claim, is an example of a colonial methodology. Though the claim that gender, the concept, applies universally is not explicitly stated, it is implied. In both group and conference conversations I have heard the claim that 'gender is everywhere,' meaning, technically, that sexual difference is socialized everywhere. The claim, implied or explicit, is that all societies organize dimorphic sexuality, reproductive sexuality, in terms of dichotomous roles that are hierarchically arranged and normatively enforced. That is, gender is the normative social conceptualization of sex, the biological fact of the matter. ... The critique of the binary has not been accompanied by an unveiling of the relation between colonization, race, and gender, nor by an analysis of gender as a colonial introduction of control of the humanity of the colonized, nor by an understanding that gender obscures rather than uncovers the organization of life among the colonized. The critique has favored thinking of more sexes and genders than two, yet it has not abandoned the universality of gender arrangements. ... Understanding the group with gender on one’s mind, one would see gender everywhere, imposing an order of relations uncritically as if coloniality had been completely successful both in erasing other meanings and people had totally assimilated, or as if they had always had the socio-political-economic structure that constitutes and is constituted by what Butler calls the gender norm inscribed in the organization of their relations. Thus, the claim 'There is gender everywhere' is false ... since for a colonized, non-Western people to have their socio-political-economic relations regulated by gender would mean that the conceptual and structural framework of their society fits the conceptual and structural framework of colonial or neocolonial and imperialist societies. ... Why does anyone want to insist on finding gender among all the peoples of our planet? What is good about the concept that we would want to keep it at the center of our 'liberation'?" María Lugones, "Gender and Universality in Colonial Methodology," in Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala: Caribbean, Meso, and South American Contributions and Challenges (2022)

[blooming-grove]

Hey. Its been bothering me a bit but id like to point out that Queetzalcoatl of aztec mythology is a mesoamerican deity which I'm very glad people have learned.

However I've seen people incorrectly state that mesoamerica is in south america. It is not. Mexico is not in South America. It's in North America. Pre Columbian Mesoamerica spans from lower Mexico to Central America. Central america is NOT in South America. It's above it, hence the _central_ part. The _meso_ in meso america ALSO means middle.

I realized that this was not common knowledge so I'm only making the post not to shame but to inform. Latin america is beautiful and rich with history and I'd love for everyone to get to know this beautiful land full of different cultures and encourage you to do so!! Quetzalcoatl is but ONE of the aztec pantheon deities and the aztecs (nahuatl) are but ONE of the many indigenous groups of latam.

Was debating on posting at all since, you know the idea of making a non fr post irks me but it honesty bothered me quiet a bit.

*EDIT* I MEANT NOT TO SHAME 😭😭😭 IM SO SORRY

[nowaytoheaven2]

Can all Christians (or people in general) just drop the idea that native and meso Americans were Caninites who migrated to America and spread the "evil" religion their God was trying to "wipe out" , please? It's such racist bullshit.

[amphiptere-art]

Hum just reminds him again. Warning that Envy would get the same scolding as a child if he speaks those words around them. If he can't control his tongue then he's going to be an example. Stating that he really should learn how to do it around his own child.

Zip grumbles a little bit at Envy's stab of his own family's group size. Quietly stating that he's only met so many. Although it does feel like there's a whole family freaking gathering happening.

Zips face does sour as envy explains there are many many more versions of TF. Asking why the hell are there so many versions of him that are just pure up assholes. Sure if he looks at it it kind of.. sounds normal. He's just surprised it got that far.

Xolo happily explains to greed that it's a nice hot drink. It's made with crushed cocoa, cornmeal and chilli pepper. It's super super yummy in his opinion. Hum quietly sighing that it tastes like somebody mixed the bitter part coffee, chocolate, and hot sauce into a drink.

Ooh! Even better idea, Zip meeting a fucking Stockholm Traveler and seeing the parallels with how Stockholm acts towards TF Monty and how Hum acts towards Eclipses.

OH.. OHHH THAT WOULD BE AMAZING >:D

Because he DOES act like how Hum acts towards eclipses just with Monty’s! He 100% does, and that would fuck with Zips head so much. And I love it

@amphiptere-art

[queenofzan]

i've been thinking lately about how people will say "europeans think 100 miles is a long distance, and americans think 100 years is a long time" and how that's like. actively erasing the colonial and genocidal efforts of settlers in the americas

like even ignoring the very obvious "we burned down native american settlements and forced them to move ever further west and then onto ever smaller reservations" there's still like

the canals in phoenix are based on indigenous canal systems that predate european settlement. buildings like montezuma's castle are hundreds of years old. (in double checking my facts for this post, i found that both were abandoned/stopped being maintained around 1400-1450 "for unknown reasons", and now I'm very curious about the exactitude of those dates because that sure is within a hundred years of europeans poking our noses into shit)

but okay, the stone-based architecture in meso- and south america is not what people are talking about, those are easily recognizable as "evidence of habitation". they're also harder to dismantle or bulldoze than, say, the mounds. which yeah okay some of them remain today and are classed as national monuments, but how many people are aware that those are man-made structures? that those are evidence of a society that was flourishing during the medieval period and was the largest city in north america until eighteenth century Philadelphia finally surpassed it? how easy was it/is it to flatten, dig through, or ignore smaller mounds as "just hills"?

how many people are taught that the abundance of easily-walkable, safe woods with easily-forageable food for humans is the result of dedicated indigenous silviculture? that our idea of natural parks that are navigable and pleasant has more in common with native american agriculture pre-contact than our tilled monoculture fields?

we think of america as having "very little history" because a: it was destroyed in order to justify european conquest of "savage" "undeveloped" people and b: we are still not taught to look for the evidence of how people here lived before colonization. we are still told the only way to date a place is by the brick and mortar and stone buildings, and not by the easily-walkable paths that have been maintained through beautiful areas for centuries, or the waterways that were carefully maintained as both water sources and highways, or the campsites that are "surprisingly clear" and ready for humans to set up there because humans have been keeping that clearing clear for centuries

like. hey. soil quality in much of europe sucks, because the agriculture practiced there was not thoughtful or sustainable. whereas the "new world" was hella fertile, and europeans decided (sometimes despite evidence to the contrary) that the native americans living there didn't "really" do agriculture, because they had adopted across much of the continent(s) much more sustainable practices that didn't leech the nutrients out of soil and leave big old scars on the land

and we're still saying this today? that european history is more impressive because the buildings are older? that it sucks to be a history buff in america because things don't get that old?

open your eyes. look at the outreach programs for your local native groups. listen to their version of history.

look at a beautiful park and think about how much human labor goes into maintaining a park that is both pleasant and safe for humans, and then think about how much early european settlers and explorers in the americas talked about how beautiful the land was.