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Indigenous villages, Life stories

Meet bakers in Teopisca

14/08/202127/04/2024Monika

It is 01:00 in the morning, in a house located in the Zaragoza neighborhood. The alarm of a clock sounds: it is the signal that a long day will begin. Family members and neighbors gather outside the bakery, waiting for the gate
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Experiencias Chiapas tour to Amatenango
Indigenous villages, Life stories

Potter women from Amatenango: part 2

14/07/202126/07/2021Monika

Together we can achieve great changes, local consumption, do not ask for discounts, be fair to value the handcraft made with love! More photos here ▶▶▶ Albertina and Maria received support from some government programs, thanks to which they were able to
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Potter-women from Amatenango: part 1

11/07/202126/07/2021Monika

Albertina and Maria are two artisans from Amatenango del Valle. Like many women in this place, they learned to make pieces of clay since they were children, imitating what their mother did. They played with the clay making little figures – for
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Juana Amatenango
Indigenous villages, Life stories

Juana Gomez, woman of the jaguar

27/12/202027/12/2020Monika

Amatenango del Valle located about 50 minutes from SAN CRISTOBAL, Chiapas, is known as the CAPITAL OF POTTERY. Pottery in Amatenango is an activity and skill that has been transmitted from generation to generation. It is said that the knowledge comes from
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zinacantan
Indigenous villages, Life stories

Rosa de Zinacantan (part 2)

13/12/201909/01/2020Monika

Walking through the main square of Zinacantan, you can see the church of San Lorenzo Mártir.  It is one of the more than 50 temples affected in its structure by the earthquake of the September 2017. Restoration work continues, meanwhile a roof
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Indigenous villages, Life stories

Rosa de Zinacantan (part 1)

23/09/201909/01/2020Monika

“Upon arriving in San Cristobal, the first place where Rudy took me to visit was Zinacantan, or more precisely, Rosa’s house. They dressed me as a Zinacanteca, they made me make tortilla and we took pictures to which I always return with
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