Just Out of Reach: Transculturation and Spanish
Interaction with the Raramuri, Huichol, and Maya
Indigenous Groups of Mexico
American Museum of Natural History online. . Web. . <images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/5f587409391abf258cd0c062689a0bdb>.
SEAN McLEARY
MAJOR - HISTORY
FACULTY MENTOR - SEAN F. McEnroe Assistant Professor of History
A Map of Mayan Civilization
Sabloff Map. Web. <http://archaeology.csumb.edu/Courses/Maya/Syllabus/images/SabloffMap.jpg>.
Pre- and Post- Colonial Mayan Dress
Pre and Post-colonial Mayan Dress. Vitrifolk.be. Web. .<http://www.vitrifolk.be/dessins/dessins-mexique-maya.jpg>.
Various Mayan Jaguar Representations. . Wikimedia Commons. . Web. . <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Magliabechiano_(folio_30).jpg>.
From: De las Casas, Bartolome. Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias. 14th ed. : Catedra Publishing, 1552,2006 . Print.
From: De las Casas, Bartolome. Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias. 14th ed. : Catedra Publishing, 1552,2006 . Print.
A Catholic “ceremony of
candles” with Tzotzil
traditional dress and
language.
January 1, 1994. Zapatistas occupy
San Cristobal de las Casas and retake
Ocosingo, Las
Margaritas, Huixtán, Oxchuc, Ranch
o Nuevo, Altamirano, and Chanal.
Photo by: Antonio Turok. “El Fin del Silencio.”
The original territory of
the Huicholes.
They now occupy very
little of Northern Jalisico,
Eastern Nayarit, and have
no Indian lands in
Zacatecas.
Ramón Medina Silva shows the Huichol
adeptness at traversing the relatively
unfriendly Huichol lands of the Sierras.
From: Myerhoff, Barbara G. Peyote Hunt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
1974. Print.
Faces of Often-perceived Unfriendliness and Isolation
Tatewari: The Fire God, the God of Healing. The oldest of Huichol deities.
Mixton War
1540 - 1542
Mixton War. . . Wikipedia Commons. Web. . <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Xochipilla.jpg>.
Spanish – Huichol Aggression: 17th - 20th Centuries
Male and Female Dress in Raramuri Society
The Three Crosses of the Raramuri
From: Lumholtz, Carl. “Unknown Mexico” volume 1 of 2. Web. . <http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/textiles/espanol/gallery/img_gal/page_41_l.jpg>.
A Raramuri Easter
From: Fontana, Bernard L. Where Night is the Day of the Moon. 3rd ed. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997. Print.
AND…
Alicia DeSantiago McLeary, My Mexican/ Raramuri mother who explained her
perspective growing up in Mexico and the many negative attitudes still held
toward Indigenous Mexicans.
QUESTIONS?
Cathedral of San Cristobal de las Casas. 16th century. Restyled in 18th century. San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México. 2013. . Wikipedia
Commons. Web. . <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral_de_San_Crist%C3%B3bal_de_las_Casas_1.jpg>.