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Our Sacred Maiz is Our Mother
Roberto Cintli Rodriguez
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Description for Our Sacred Maiz is Our Mother
Paperback. Brings together scholarly and traditional (elder) knowledge about the long history of maiz/corn cultivation and culture, its roots in Mesoamerica, and its living relationship to Indigenous peoples throughout the continent, including Mexicans and Central Americans now living in the United States. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1K; JFSL4; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz."" That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States.
Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a result of war or invasion, they are people of the corn, connected through a seven-thousand-year old maíz culture to other Indigenous inhabitants of the continent. ... Read more
If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz."" That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States.
Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a result of war or invasion, they are people of the corn, connected through a seven-thousand-year old maíz culture to other Indigenous inhabitants of the continent. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Arizona Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816530618
SKU
V9780816530618
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About Roberto Cintli Rodriguez
Roberto Cintli Rodriguez is an assistant professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona. In 2013, he received the Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award from the American Educational Research Association for his work supporting the Mexican American Studies Program in the Tucson Unified School District.
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