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La Mixteca is a cultural, economic and political region in Western Oaxaca and neighboring portions of Puebla, Guerrero in south-central Mexico, which refers to the home of the Mixtec people. In their languages, the region is called either Ñuu Djau, Ñuu Davi or Ñuu Savi. Two-thirds of all Mixtecs live in the region, and the entire national ...
Turquoise mosaic mask. Mixtec-Aztec, 1400–1521 AD. The Mixtecs (/ ˈ m iː s t ɛ k s, ˈ m iː ʃ t ɛ k s /), [3] or Mixtecos, are Indigenous Mesoamerican peoples of Mexico inhabiting the region known as La Mixteca of Oaxaca and Puebla as well as La Montaña Region and Costa Chica Regions of the state of Guerrero.
Mixteca Alta Formative Project (2003–present) is an archaeological project directed by Andrew Balkansky that focuses on the Mixtec of Oaxaca, Mexico.The project, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, [1] the National Geographic Society, and the H. John Heinz III Fund, [2] seeks to understand Mixtec origins and their transition to urbanism. [3]
Polychrome vessel of codex style. Mixtec culture, from Xayacatlán (Puebla), Late Postclassic period (XII-XVI centuries A.D.), part of the collection of the National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico) Pre-Hispanic Mixtec art is widely related to religion and worship, some of the most sumptuous pieces were destined for temple altars or ritual uses.
INALI classifies Nieves Mixtec as part of Upper Western Mixtec (Spanish: mixteco del oeste alto). [3] J. Kathryn Josserand classified it as part of Southern Baja Mixtec. [4] SIL grouped Nieves Mixtec with Silacayoapan Mixtec, [5] and found that speakers of Nieves Mixtec could understand 94% of Silacayoapan Mixtec, 75% of Juxtlahuaca Mixtec, 56% of Mixtepec Mixtec and 46% of Cacaloxtepec Mixtec.
Mixtec transnational migration is the phenomenon in which Mixtec people have migrated between Mexico and the United States for over three generations. The Mixtec people are an example of a social group in which migration had not led to a loss of cultural identity , but has rather generated territorial expansion and cultural reaffirmation.
XETLA-AM/XHPBSD-FM (La Voz de la Mixteca – "The Voice of La Mixteca") is an indigenous community radio station that broadcasts in Spanish, Mixtec and Triqui from Tlaxiaco in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
The cacicazgo of San Pedro el Alto is the subject of a 16th-century manuscript called the Genealogy of Tlazultepec, currently kept in the Archivo General de la Nación.The Genealogy shows the relationships between the caciques of San Pedro el Alto (then known as Tlazultepec), other Mixtec lineages, and their descendants, and was presented in 1597 in litigation over the succession to the cacicazgo.