Open AccessEscritura zapoteca en los “Años de Silencio”: un curioso texto en zapoteco de Chichicapan de 1832
Author(s) -
Sebastián van Doesburg,
AUTHOR_ID
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
tlalocan/tlalocan: revista de fuentes para el conocimiento de las culturas indígenas de méxico.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2954-5242
pISSN - 0185-0989
DOI - 10.19130/iifl.tlalocan.2022.1.8725x16
Subject(s) - contextualization , humanities , indigenous , newspaper , art , history , sociology , philosophy , media studies , linguistics , ecology , interpretation (philosophy) , biology
In 1832, Mr. Pablo Antonio Cruz of Chichicapan wrote an open letter in Zapotec to the Oaxacan newspaper El Zapoteco of proto-liberal afilliation, in which he complained about the inhumane conditions in which the indigenous laborers of the Ejutla district who were hired to build the highway to Huatulco worked. In this contribution I present an interlinear analysis of the text and a historical contextualization of this curious document published at a time when it was rare to write in Mesoamerican languages.