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  • Triqui indigenous shaman of La Candelaria district performing a “limpia”, a ritual with eggs necessary to drive away the “evil’s eye”.
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  • Triqui indigenous shaman of La Candelaria district performing a “limpia”, a ritual with eggs necessary to drive away the “evil’s eye”.
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  • Huautla de Jimenez. Don Crescencio, a well-known local shaman.
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  • Santiago Juxtlahuaca in the Juxtlahuaca District of the Mixteca Region.
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  • Santiago Juxtlahuaca in the Juxtlahuaca District of the Mixteca Region.
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  • Santiago Juxtlahuaca in the Juxtlahuaca District of the Mixteca Region. Indigenous woman preparing food for a traditional ceremony.
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  • Santiago Juxtlahuaca in the Juxtlahuaca District of the Mixteca Region.
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  • Santiago Juxtlahuaca in the Juxtlahuaca District of the Mixteca Region.
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  • Shaman woman in a Temascal, trhe traditional precolumbian sauna, still popular also between the foreigners.
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  • Triqui indigenous shaman of La Candelaria district performing a “limpia”, a ritual with eggs necessary to drive away the “evil’s eye”.
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  • Mexicos’s most populous Indian community, a mosaic of more than 400.000, lives in a most unexpected place, in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth, Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to weave dreams and make plans difficult to undertand by  those part of their world. The ties to their homes are so strong, that some researchers define these urban groups as “embassies” for their distant villages...that form, in many ways, a different world. This Indian world of the city is a subterranean universe, often hidden behind the annonymous doorway of some rundown colonial mansion.
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  • Città del Messico. Una vedova Otomì emigrata dall’altipiano mostra la foto del suo matrimonio.
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  • Huautla de Jimenez.. Arturo, the village’s most known herbolist, treats the diseases with traditional herbs.
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  • Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre). Norogachi, Tarahumara Holy Week. The “fariseos” interpretes the part of “spanish”, the Jesus Christ’s enemies. Isolated within the remote landscape of the formidabile and spectacular Barranca del Cobre (Copper Canyon) live more than 50.000 Tarahumaras, the first largest indigenous people of Norhern Mexico that call themselves Raramuri, “runners”, for thier ability to run long distances. Many Tarahumaras live in caves and log cabins, down in the canyon in winter and in the highlands in summer. They still retain strong traditions, today menaced by increasing pressure from increasing desertification and drug trafficants. Still today, the most importan event is the Holy Week, celebrated for days with a unique religious synchretism of Catholicism and traditional worship.
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