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Maya Civilizations
Mazatec
Nahua
Zapotec
Maya Civilizations
The Maya are an Indigenous people of Mexico and Central America who have continuously inhabited the lands comprising modern-day Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas in Mexico and southward through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. The designation Maya comes from the ancient Yucatan city of Mayapan, the last capital of a Mayan Kingdom in the Post-Classic Period. The Maya people refer to themselves by ethnicity and language bonds such as Quiche in the south or Yucatec in the north (though there are many others).
Films
Brujo
Georges Payrastre, Claudine Viallon
Gods and Kings
Robin Blotnik
Incidents of Travel at Chichén Itzá
Jeffrey Himpele, Quetzil Castañeda
The Living Maya
Hubert Smith
Maya Lords of the Jungle
John Angier, Michael Ambrosino
Out of the Maya Tombs
David Labrun
Tikal
Karl Heider
Via Dolorosa
Georges Payrastre, Claudine Viallon
Yucatec Maya Deaf Sign
Hubert Smith
Mazatec
The Mazatec are an Indigenous people of Mexico who inhabit the Sierra Mazateca in the state of Oaxaca and some communities in the adjacent states of Puebla and Veracruz. The Mazatecan languages are a group of related Indigenous languages spoken by some 200,000 people. The name Mazatec means “Deer People” in the Nahuatl language.
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Nahua
The Nahua people, bound together by a shared culture and language (Nahuatl), dominated central Mesoamerica in 1519. The best-known members of this group are the Mexicas of Tenochtitlán (popularly referred to as Aztecs), but there were a large number of individual Nahua states in the Basin of Mexico and adjacent areas, including Texcoco, Cholula, and Tlaxcala.
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Zapotec
The Zapotecs (Zoogocho Zapotec: Didxažoŋ) are an indigenous people of Mexico. The population is concentrated in the southern state of Oaxaca, but Zapotec communities also exist in neighboring states. The name Zapotec is an exonym coming from Nahuatl tzapotēcah (singular tzapotēcatl), which means “inhabitants of the place of sapote”. The Zapotecs call themselves Ben ‘Zaa, which means “The Cloud People”. The Zapotec languages are a group of around 50 closely related indigenous Mesoamerican languages that constitute a main branch of the Oto-Manguean language family and which is spoken by the Zapotec people from the southwestern-central highlands of Mexico.
