Oaxaca celebration : family, food, and fiestas in Teotitlán / Mary Jane Gagnier Mendoza ; with photographs by Ariel Mendoza and Mary Jane Gagnier de Mendoza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gagnier de Mendoza, Mary Jane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Festivals--Mexico--Teotitlán del Valle.

Festivals.

Fasts and feasts--Mexico--Teotitlán del Valle.

Fasts and feasts.

Zapotec Indians--Mexico--Teotitlán del Valle--Social life and customs.

Zapotec Indians.

Zapotec Indians--Mexico--Teotitlán del Valle--Religious life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Teotitlán del Valle (Mexico)--Social life and customs.

Teotitlán del Valle (Mexico).

Teotitlán del Valle (Mexico)--Religious life and customs.

Mexico--Teotitlán del Valle.

Physical Description:

159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), 1 color map ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Fe : Museum of New Mexico Press, [2005]

Summary:

Maria, the potter of San Ildefonso (1887-1980), is not only the most famous of Pueblo Indian potters but ranks among the best of international potters. Her work is collected and exhibited around the world, and more than any other artist, Maria Martinez brought "signatures" to Indian art. She and other members of her family revived a dying art form and kindled a renaissance in pottery for all the Pueblos. By her own artistic example she raised this regional art to one of international acclaim. This lavishly illustrated book draws from Spivey's 1979 classic work. Featuring entirely new photography and 120 added pots as well as a significantly expanded text, this new volume considers the entirety of this artist's immense oeuvre and important works and developments in her collaborations with Julian, and after his death, with her daughter-in-law Santana, son Popovi Da, and grandson Tony Da, bringing the legacy of Maria into the bright future of Pueblo ceramics.

Contents:

Commencing the cycle : birth of the baby Jesus, and the new year begins

Pilgrimage, poinsettias, and black-bean tamales : the Fiesta of the Black Christ of Esquipulas

Candles to content : prewedding rituals

The wedding : coming of age

Lent and Holy Week

Post-Easter revelry : la danza de los viejos

Dancing for the gods : celebrating the patron saints

Death and the Day of the Dead

Echoes of harmony in step with change : closing thoughts on an unending cycle.

ISBN:

0890134448

0890134456

OCLC:

57731069