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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.
Mixtec communities are generally described as transnational or trans-border because of their ability to maintain and reaffirm social ties between their native homelands and diasporic communities. (See: Mixtec transnational migration.)
The Mixtec chiefdoms of La Costa had, for this reason, a multi-ethnic population, as in the case of Tututepec. Although this locality was occupied before the Postclassic period, it shows signs of a spectacular demographic growth between the 9th and 10 centuries, related precisely to the Mixtec migration from the highlands. [30]
The Mixtec family is basically nuclear and patrilineal, although migration has influenced the family structure as men often spend long periods away from home. Municipal authorities serve for one year only. Judicial offices are held by the trustees and mayors, who serve as prosecutors and judges.
Many of these Indigenous Mexican-Americans hail from the indigenous people of Oaxaca, with California being home to between 100,000 and 150,000 indigenous Oaxacans. 50,000 are estimated to be Mixtec, an indigenous people from the La Mixteca region of Western Oaxaca and nearby portions of Puebla and Guerrero. [3]
The Mixtec were known for their exceptional mastery of jewelry, in which gold and turquoise figure prominently. Around 1250 AD the Aztecs began pushing down from the North. Mixtec groups in turn invaded the Valley of Oaxaca and established the Cuilapan state. Shortly before the Spanish arrived, most of the west and central areas of Oaxaca had ...
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]
Tututepec is a Nahuatl name meaning "Bird Hill," while in Mixtec the city is called Yucu Dzaa meaning "Hill of the Bird." In Aztec and Mixtec scripts, the city's glyph is drawn differently but both scripts represent the city with a bird on a hill, untying the name of the city to a specific sound but to a specific name. [2]