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Oaxaca Celebration - Family, Food, & Fiestas in Teotitlan (Paperback)
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Oaxaca Celebration - Family, Food, & Fiestas in Teotitlan (Paperback)
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Almost twenty years ago, a young Canadian woman, Mary Jane Gagnier,
travelled through Mexico on a journey of self-exploration. One
evening on the zocalo in Oaxaca, she met a weaver from the nearby
village of Teotitlan del Valle, who offered his uncles' help in
repairing her broken clarinet. Shortly thereafter the two were
married, and rather instantly the Ontario native with wanderlust
found herself intimately immersed in the culture and traditions of
her new home. Fiestas are synonymous with Mexico and daily
ceremonial rituals and celebrations are at the center of Oaxaca's
spiritual and social life. Gagnier de Mendoza chronicles the
festival cycle in Teotitlan, a Zapotec village located fifteen
miles from the capitol. The fiestas here center on the complex art
of hosting, whether for family gatherings or religious ceremonies
that involves traditional cooking and flower arranging, candle
making and fireworks. Throughout the year, village brass bands
regularly line the streets in processions featuring plumed dancers
and masked actors. Beginning with Christmas posadas through Fiesta
of the Black Christ of Esquipulas, pre-wedding and wedding
celebrations, Lent and Holy Week, post-Easter revelry celebrating
the patron saints, to the conclusion of the festival cycle with Day
of the Dead, this memoir chronicles the spirit-life of an ancient
community that day after day honors its gods as itself.
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