CULTURES - LATINO

MIXTEC

General Information Websites

The Mixteco Team:
http://www.peopleteams.org/mixteco/hispano/bibliograf%C3%ADa.htm
A useful site that contains resources for all aspects of Mixtec life. Once at the site, along the left, are a list of links. The bottom link says English site, which will translate the material into English.

Oaxaca's Tourist Guide:
http://www.oaxaca-travel.com
A page for tourists visiting Oaxaca but still containing useful information about the Mixtec people.

University of Minnesota Department of Anthropology:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/humanorigins/index.html
A page centered on ancient MesoAmerican civilizations including the Mixtec people. The site explains the political and religious systems of the ancient Mixtec people along with the writing system.

http://library.riohondo.edu/Subject_Guides/mixtec.htm
A links page to Mixtec related sites.

Additional Reading

Alfaro, V. C. (1991). Los Mixtecos en la Frontera (Baja California). Mexicali: Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la Universidad Autonoma de Baja California:

Bade, B. L.(1994). Sweatbaths, Sacrifice, and Surgery: The Practice of Transmedical Health Care by Mixtec Migrant Families in California. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Dissertation Services, A Bell and Howell Company.

Daniel, C. R. (1981). Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers: 1870-1941. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.

Rivera-Salgado, G. (1999). "Mixteco Activism in Oaxacalifornia," American Behavioral Scientist, 42(9): 1439-1458.

Spores, R. (1984). The Mixtecs in Ancient and Colonial Times. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.

Winter, M. (1992). Oaxaca: The Archaeological Record. Mexics.

Online Video:

Invisible Indians: Mixtec Farmworkers in California / Teaching Traditions: Maestros of Mixtec Culture. http://www.uctv.tv/library-test.asp?showID=5597
"This important interdisciplinary video explores the history; culture, and current social and economic conditions of the Mixtec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico. It examines the factors causing ever increasing numbers of Mixtecs to become migrants, living part of each year in California, where they make up between five and ten percent of all farmworkers."