LEADER 05277nam 2200697 450 001 9910465498403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8165-9864-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000226790 035 $a(EBL)3411892 035 $a(OCoLC)890433033 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001335677 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11745956 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001335677 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11293773 035 $a(PQKB)11253963 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3411892 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35826 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3411892 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10921667 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL640954 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000226790 100 $a20140909h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOur sacred mai?z is our mother $eindigeneity and belonging in the Americas /$fRoberto Cintli Rodri?guez ; with Vero?nica Castillo Herna?ndez [and eight others] 210 1$aTucson, [Arizona] :$cThe University of Arizona Press,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-09703-8 311 $a0-8165-3061-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Translation; Cente Tlakatl Ke Cente Cintli - Paula Domingo Olivares; Prologue; Introduction: Okichike ka Centeotzintli; Mai?z Sagrado - Francisco Pos and Irma Tzirin Socop; Chapter 1. Spiritual Colonization: A Totalizing Reframing Project; Zazanil Xilotl Huehue Tlahtolli - Tata Cuaxtle Fe?lix Evodio; Chapter 2. Mai?z Narratives and Counternarratives: When "Our Story" Begins; ¡Que? Buenas las Gorditas Rellenas! - Maestra Angelbertha Cobb; Chapter 3. The Aztlanahuac Maps; Saramamalla (N?ukanchik Mamashina) - Luz Mari?a de la Torre 327 $aChapter 4. Mai?z as Civilizational Impulse and the Tortilla as Symbol of Cultural ResistanceThe Elements to Create - Mari?a Molina Vai Sevoi; Chapter 5. Primary Process and Principio: A Return to the Root; En el Umbral de la Agoni?a del Mai?z Azul - Vero?nica Castillo Herna?ndez; Chapter 6. Axis Mundi: From Aztlan to Mai?z; Epilogue: Resistance/Creation Culture and Seven Mai?z-Based Values; Ohoyo Osh Chisba - Alicia Seyler, Choctaw; The Children of La Llorona; Appendix 1. Nahua-Maya Expressions; Appendix 2. Abbreviated Bibliocartography; Appendix 3. The Aztlanahuac Interviews; Notes; References 327 $aIndex 330 $a" 'If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the mai?z.' That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States. Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Mai?z Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a result of war or invasion, they are people of the corn, connected through a seven-thousand-year old mai?z culture to other Indigenous inhabitants of the continent. Using corn as the framework for discussing broader issues of knowledge production and history of belonging, the author looks at how corn was included in codices and Mayan texts, how it was discussed by elders, and how it is represented in theater and stories as a way of illustrating that Mexicans and Mexican Americans share a common culture. Rodriguez brings together scholarly and traditional (elder) knowledge about the long history of mai?z/corn cultivation and culture, its roots in Mesoamerica, and its living relationship to Indigenous peoples throughout the continent, including Mexicans and Central Americans now living in the United States. The author argues that, given the restrictive immigration policies and popular resentment toward migrants, a continued connection to mai?z culture challenges the social exclusion and discrimination that frames migrants as outsiders and gives them a sense of belonging not encapsulated in the idea of citizenship. The "hidden transcripts" of corn in everyday culture--art, song, stories, dance, and cuisine (mai?z-based foods like the tortilla)--have nurtured, even across centuries of colonialism, the living mai?z culture of ancient knowledge. "--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aIndians of North America$xFood$zFour Corners Region 606 $aIndians of North America$xAgriculture$zFour Corners Region 606 $aCorn$xSocial aspects$zFour Corners Region 606 $aMexican Americans$xEthnic identity 606 $aMexicans$xEthnic identity 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xFood 615 0$aIndians of North America$xAgriculture 615 0$aCorn$xSocial aspects 615 0$aMexican Americans$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aMexicans$xEthnic identity. 676 $a306.4 700 $aRodri?guez$b Roberto Cintli$f1954-$0963493 702 $aHerna?ndez$b Vero?nica Castillo 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465498403321 996 $aOur sacred mai?z is our mother$92184517 997 $aUNINA