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Indigenous Women Are Publishing the First Maya Works in Over 400 Years

Uncategorized Posted: August 21, 2019 4:15 pm

“Taller Leñateros is Mexico’s first and only Tzotzil Maya book- and papermaking collective. Founded in 1975 [in San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas] by the Mexican-American poet Ambar Past, the workshop is dedicated to documenting and disseminating the endangered Tzotzil language, culture, and oral history. And it does so environmentally, using only recycled materials (leñateros alludes to those who get their firewood from deadwood, rather than felled trees).” – Atlas Obscura

Uncategorized Published: 08.08.19, sj

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