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Mexico - Culture
Mexican culture mexico's history and culture include an interesting mix ofindigenous civilizations with various waves of European immigration.
http://www.collegesabroad.com/Mexico/Courses/Culture.htm

Extractions: Home Reserve On-Line Contact Us Choose Country Argentina China Cyprus Hungary Ireland Italy Mexico New Zealand Russia Mexican Culture Mexico's history and culture include an interesting mix of indigenous civilizations with various waves of European immigration. This fusion of cultures makes Mexico the unique nation it is today. Students can learn about Mexican culture through a variety of courses in history, civilization, music, art, dance and literature. Courses are offered in both English and Spanish. Credits Mexican Culture Level Mexican Cuisine Beginner Mexican Dances Beginner Mexican Culture Beginner Mexican Culture Intermediate Beginner Mexican History Advanced Latin American Rhythms Advanced Seminar in Contemporary Latin American Fiction Advanced History and Culture of Lat America Beginner Latin American Political Systems Advanced Advanced Latin American Literature Advanced Intro to Literature in Spanish Advanced Mexican Literature Advanced Mexican Theater Advanced Mexican Film Advanced History of Mexican Art Advanced Mexican Art and Architecture Advanced
Mexico - Culture Description
Course overviewing Mexican history, PreHispanic culture, Conquest, Colonizationand Viceroyalty to go back PI-072 Diplomatic Relations Between mexico and USA
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Heritage Center
Interdisciplinary research unit of New mexico State University, studying ways to conserve traditional cultures whose history and culture is closely bound to the land, including several Native American communities of New mexico as well as the Siberan Khanty.
http://www.nmsu.edu/~english/hc/heritagecenter.html
Travel In Mexico City - Mexico - Culture - WorldTravelGate.net®-
mexico City culture. This is a must-see destination and would make an excellentfirst day tour to get yourself oriented with the culture of mexico.
http://www.americatravelling.net/mexico/mexico_city/mexico_city_culture.htm

Extractions: Mexico City - Culture The city is rich in Aztec history. The Plaza de la Constitucion Overlooking the plaza from the north is the Metropolitan Cathedral, constructed from the 16th to the 19th centuries, utilizing architectural styles from each of three main designs during this period: gothic, baroque and neo-classical. The church has fourteen altars the most significant of which are the Altar de Pardon, and the Altar de los Reyes. Guides are available to show you the more interesting aspects of the church and provide historic facts regarding the altars and construction. From the outside, you will likely see ongoing work to correct structural flaws caused by the sinking of the building into the soft mud underneath. The most significant archaeological site within Mexico City is the Templo Mayor, just east of the cathedral. This was the main Aztec temple and gave Archaeologists a glimpse into the powerful and often cruel culture of the Aztecs. Artifacts unearthed at or around the site showed products from wide ranging cultures throughout what is now modern day Mexico, testament to the size of the empire the Aztecs established. Perhaps the most magnificent find is the stone of Coyolxauhqui, the dismembered goddess, sister of the war god Huitzilopochtli. Legend has it that Huitzilopochtli emerged from the womb armed and slew his sister because she was plotting against their mother, Coatlicue, and because she did not approve of human sacrifice. The stone itself is exquisitely carved and can be viewed in the museum from two levels.
Travel In Chichen Itza - Mexico - Culture - WorldTravelGate.net®-
Chichen Itza culture. This now popular tourist attraction is located on the YucatanPeninsula of mexico and has fast become the best restored record of the
http://www.americatravelling.net/mexico/chichen_itza/chichen_itza_culture.htm

Extractions: Chichen Itza - Culture C hichen Itza is the most impressive and intact ruins of Mayan civilization that the modern world has. This now popular tourist attraction is located on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and has fast become the best restored record of the spiritual, domestic, and agricultural lives of these people. The Yucatan area has much more to offer than just a beach resort, it hosts some of the most spectacular of the Mayan archaeological sites, including the famous Chichen Itza . Chichen Itza has a mixture of Mayan and Aztec temples and the largest known 'Ball Court', a game for which the rules have been forgotten but carvings found on the side on the ball court indicate one of the players was beheaded at the end of the game. El Caracol is an astronomy-oriented structure. It is a giant observatory dome where many rituals and celebrations took place. The dome has many windows peppered throughout. Stars can be seen through different windows on specific dates. This structure is one of the pinnacles of Mayan architecture. Creating a stone dome is hard work, but creating it with windows at precise points takes an enormous amount of time and skill. El Caracol simultaneously displays the Mayans' expertise in both astronomy and engineering. This is one of the main attractions of Chichen Itza today.
Mexico, People And Crafts
Present information about culture, history, and traditions. Includes decorating tips and adventures inside the hearts of mexican people and their crafts.
http://www.mexicopeopleandcrafts.com

Extractions: Welcome to Mexico, People and Crafts , a Magic site ... Mexico is a magic country, it is a colorful fan for the visitors soul and for the inhabitant; each one of its regions, each block of its cities surround a mistery and an ancestral fascination and presents that point to an uncertain future. Because of this, Mexico is the adventure of those who leave any logic security to face the impossible, the dreaming world, the mysthics, to feed the world with its emotion and new life in constant colorful explotion and rhythm blends of a song and a cry that talk about a vital deep philosophy. In Mexico, People and Crafts we want to take each visitors hand and conduct them through our different sections, to a virtual and magic voyage, not only by the blue academic description, but by the virtual-direct contact with people, with mexicans, their present and past vivencies and their manual, intellectual, artistic and musical creations. Mexico, People and Crafts
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Collection of articles from Encarta Encyclopedia provide an overview of mexico's history, the land itself, its people, and its culture.
http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761576758
Mexico-info.com - Get Information About Mexico, Economy, Immigration, Culture, E
Provides information about mexico, its economy, business and trade, culture, and travel.
http://www.mexico-info.com

Extractions: After years of watching the prices paid to coffee growers plummet, while chains like Starbucks charged top dollar for coffee drinks, this family-owned business turned to the retail market. Looking to the U.S. coffee culture, Melo and Gino Demeneghi opened a shop last October in the tunnels of downtown Houston named Rustik Gourmet Coffee Factory.
THE OTHER SIDE OF MEXICO - CULTURE, HISTORY, ART, ARTICLES ABOUT
Access mexico Connect is mexico's monthly electronic magazine devoted to informingabout and promoting mexico, her people, culture, history, arts, business
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/frame.html
Spanish School For Foreigners - Centro De Idiomas Del Sureste - MERIDA, YUCATAN,
Spanish school for foreigners in Merida, Yucatan, mexico. Offer intensive programs, cultural enrichment programs for Spanish teachers and Maya culture courses. Homestay available.
http://cisyucatan.com.mx/
Mexico From Empire To Revolution (Research At The Getty)
Photographs from the Getty Research Institute's collections exploring Mexican history and culture though images produced between 1857 and 1923.
http://www.getty.edu/gri/digital/mexico
Welcome To The Museum Of New Mexico Website!
The museum houses a collection of art, history and culture in four museums and five monuments statewide.
http://www.museumofnewmexico.org
Thresholds: A Journey Of Discovery Through México And Central America.
A journey of discovery through mexico and Central America. Many stories, photographs and insites into indigenous culture through a traveler's eye.
http://www.thresholds.net/

Extractions: T his site is a journey through México and Central America; a maze of stories, photographs, travel journals and poetry. It is intended to allow the visitor to wander and view fascinating Mayan cities, sights in many towns and villages, and simply get a taste of people and places through a traveler's eye. This is only the beginning. The first Threshold. Enjoy your visit. This Way
NM Guides Welcome
Find a tour guide with knowledge of New mexico's history, art, culture, natural history, archaeology and architecture that is certified for competency and integrity.
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America's Land Of Enchantment
Comprehensive guide to New mexico resources on the Internet. Lists New mexico ISPs and movies filmed in NM. Explore the history, culture, and economic development picture of America's Land of Enchantment.
http://www.nmusa.com/

Extractions: Americas Land of Enchantment, New Mexico USA is your premiere guide to New Mexico resources on the Internet . Learn all about New Mexico and its people by playing trivia, browsing factual tidbits, and exploring the webs of New Mexicos people, communities, businesses and government. Enjoy animated shots of the southwests most intriguing scenery and cultures, including spectacular scenes from the Worlds Largest Ballooning Event, the e-mail construction comments to:
Richard A. Diehl
Profile of this University of Alabama Professor. Research interests include preColumbian cultures of central mexico and the Olmec culture of the tropical lowlands of the Mexican Gulf coast.
http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/diehl.htm

Extractions: Department of Anthropology The University of Alabama Richard A. Diehl To contact Dr. Diehl please click here Ten Selected Publications 1995. Olmec Archaeology. in The Olmec World: Rulership and Ritual , published by The Art Museum, Princeton University and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., (with Michael D. Coe). 1993. The Toltec Horizon: Old Debates and New Perspectives." In Latin American Horizons , Don Rice, ed. Pp 263-294, Dumbarton Oaks Research Collections, Washington, DC. 1990. The Olmec at La Venta. In Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries . Pp. 51-71, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Bulfinch Press, Boston. Mesoamerica after the Decline of Teotihuacan: A.D 700-900 . Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, Washington, DC. Co-edited with Janet Catherine Berlo. 1989b. Olmec archaeology: What we know and what we wish we knew. in Regional Perspectives on the Olmec . Robert J. Sharer and David C. Grove, eds. Pp. 17-32. A School of American Research Book. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England. Tula: The Toltec Capital of Ancient Mexico . Thames and Hudson, Ltd., London.
PRE- COLUMBIAN CULTURE
Explores the Aztec, Mayan, and Olmec cultures.
http://mexico.udg.mx/historia/precolombinas/ingles/
Tzeltal
A ethnographic analysis of a Native American ethnic group concentrated in the central highlands of the State of Chiapas, mexico.
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7881

Extractions: Society-TZELTAL The Tzeltal are a North American Indian ethnic group concentrated in the central highlands of the State of Chiapas, Mexico. Continguous Indian groups are the Tzotzil to the west, the Chol to the north and northeast, and the Tojolabal to the southeast. The basic population cleavage in the Chiapas highlands, however, is not between the various Indian groups, but rather between the Ladinos (Spanish-speaking, usually racially mixed people), who occupy primarily the major towns, and the Indians, who live primarily in outlying municipios. The Tzeltal and Tzotzil languages form the Tzeltalan subdivision of the Mayan language family. Lexico-statistical studies indicate that these two languages probably became differentiated around 1200 A.D. (Vogt 1969: 140). The Tzeltal-speaking population numbered approximately 50,000 around 1950. This population is distributed through 12 municipios, with 13 main communities. Of the latter, 9 are almost entirely Indian (i.e., reported to be over 85 percent Tzeltal-speaking): Aguacatenango, Amatenango, Cancuc, Chanal, Chilon, Oxchuc, Tenejapa, Petalcingo, and Sitala. The other 4 communities are about 65 to 80 percent Tzeltal-speaking: Altamirano, Ocosingo, Villa de las Rosas, and Yajalan (Villa Rojas 1969: 195-96; Vogt 1969: 139). Ecologically, the Tzeltal region can be divided into three zones: north, central, and south. Some demographic and cultural variations coordinate with these zones. More fundamentally, however, each Tzeltal community constitutes a distinct social and cultural unit. "Each community has its well-defined lands, its own dialect forms, wearing apparel, kinship system, politico-religious organization, economic resources, crafts, and other cultural features" (Villa Rojas 1969: 197). Strong intracommunity solidarity contrasts with the lack of any social or political solidarity at the ethnic group level. Agriculture is the basic economic activity of the Tzeltal peasants. Traditional Mesoamerican cropsmaize, beans, squash, and chilies, are the most important, but a variety of other crops, including wheat, manioc, sweet potatoes, cotton, chayote, and some fruits and vegetables, are also raised. Regional variations in ecological conditions lead to concomitant differentiation in agriculture. Domestic animals include poultry, pigs, burros, and cattle, but these animals are seldom eaten. Tzeltal villages are noted for craft specialties. Surplus produce and craft products are traded throughout the region by a system of regional periodic markets, and these markets link the Tzeltal to the wider Mexican economic system. Finally, many Tzeltal are dependent to some extent on wage labor in order to provision their households. All of the Tzeltal communities follow an essentially similar structural pattern, with a town center, which may be heavily or thinly populated, and a number of communities, called parajes, which are scattered over the municipio. The town is the political, religious, and commercial center of the entire community. The town centers are divided into two sections, called barrios or calpules, each with its own local authorities and sometimes its own patron saint. In addition to political and religious functions, each barrio traditionally was endogamous. Some of the other major aspects of traditional Tzeltal social organization that persist today in the more conservative communities are exogamous patrilineal sibs, patrilineal lineages within which land is inherited, and an Omaha type of kinship terminology. In the more acculturated communities, the sib-lineage system tends to disappear and to be replaced by a bilateral system similar to that characterizing Ladino society. Although there are some extended families, the nuclear family is the basic pattern. The Tzeltal religious system is a syncretic blend of Catholic and indigenous elements. Annual community ceremonies are held in honor of particular saints. As in most Mesoamerican Indian communities, office holders in the civil-religious hierarchy are in charge of these celebrations as well as more secular village affairs. Shamanism and witchcraft are also found among the Tzeltal. Villa Rojas (1969) contains an excellent general summary of Tzeltal ethnography and culture history, which provides a very useful starting point for the study of Tzeltal culture. Culture summary by Robert O. Lagace and Eleanor C. Swanson Villa Rojas, Alfonso. The Tzeltal. In Robert Wauchope, ed. Handbook of Middle American Indians. Vol. 7. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1969: 195-225. Vogt, Evon Z. Chiapas highlands. In Robert Wauchope, ed. Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. 7. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1969: 133-151. 7881
LatinWorld: Mexico - Artes | Arts | Artes
Translate this page Anunciar Privacidade. LatinWorld. mexico. Cultura culture Cultura. Artes-Arts-Artes.Actividades artísticas de la Ciudad de México. Tiempo libre.
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Mexican Art Culture Tours
Far reaching adventures in mexico's art, culture and history as well as an upclose and personal look at present-day mexican life.
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