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Film, Video Ethnography, Identity and Ethnohistory: Studying Narrative in Contemporary and Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico

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Title

  • Ethnography, Identity and Ethnohistory: Studying Narrative in Contemporary and Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico

Summary

  • Each year, indigenous languages around the world disappear with the death of their last living speaker. Jacqueline Messing believes that it is imperative for the social sciences and humanities to explain how and why people come to abandon their ancestral languages, as well as the role of colonialism, globalization and racism in this process. From a linguistic-anthropological and ethnohistorical perspective, she discussed identity emergent in narratives from the sixteenth century historical record of indigenous communities in the Nahuatl-speaking state of Tlaxcala, Mexico, a region that was pivotal in the conquest of Mexico.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2009-06-24.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Native American History
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Education
  • -  Government, World Affairs

Notes

  • -  Classification: Education.
  • -  Classification: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation.
  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Jacqueline Messing.
  • -  Recorded on 2009-06-24.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688271

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Ethnography, Identity and Ethnohistory: Studying Narrative in Contemporary and Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-24, 2009. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688271/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2009) Ethnography, Identity and Ethnohistory: Studying Narrative in Contemporary and Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-24. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688271/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Ethnography, Identity and Ethnohistory: Studying Narrative in Contemporary and Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-24, 2009. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688271/>.