tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1710073417412924020.post1187292808789545818..comments2024-03-21T14:29:41.877-06:00Comments on Oaxaca-The Year After: Danza de la Pluma momentsChristopher Stowenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17338834673351573616noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1710073417412924020.post-55197325359737472462014-09-11T08:05:29.576-05:002014-09-11T08:05:29.576-05:00Gracias for the comment. The more I learn, the mo...Gracias for the comment. The more I learn, the more realize there is to learn. I feel like I have barely scratched the surface. These are ancient, deep and sophisticated rituals and always, always, so beautiful and moving.<br /><br />Malinche is such a fascinating woman, so complex.Christopher Stowenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17338834673351573616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1710073417412924020.post-54387468737355218322014-09-10T23:21:41.069-05:002014-09-10T23:21:41.069-05:00I am really impressed with all the images , and I ...I am really impressed with all the images , and I must say that even I am mexican, with your blog I am learning ,appreciating and enjoying all the traditions of this culture, of this part of my country. You capt the escence of the moment, and people. I didn´t know this "danza de las plumas "and its interpretation. La Malinche is a character of our history, that we learn in primary school, and she is no well seen in the official books ( well in my primary years, maybe now it has changed) she is described like a treacherous, and we grow with that image, until I grew up, that we begin to read more intelligently, and we begin to be aware about us ( the "why " of our culture and our social behavoir, more me like a woman). So la Malinche , as you well say , is the mother of this new culture, mexican culture, She is seen from a dichotomy, she can be seen like a virgin or like a mother raped. ( that thats how it was with all the ´women in the time of the conquest).Malinche really is the symbol of the Mestizaje, so that is what we are, we are not completly indigenous, we are not completly europeans, and the beauty of this is that we have done a rich fusion between two diferents cultures. And la Malinche is our reference of that syncretism. Maybe she did it because she didn´t has no option, maybe she did it for love.... ( I´ve been married twice, one with a spanish and one with a belge, a double Malinche)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKjawPPuw-cAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1710073417412924020.post-75681355672089698112014-09-10T16:08:34.087-05:002014-09-10T16:08:34.087-05:00Glad you are enjoying the older posts. I sure did...Glad you are enjoying the older posts. I sure did.Christopher Stowenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17338834673351573616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1710073417412924020.post-91734230280926485332014-09-10T15:16:10.348-05:002014-09-10T15:16:10.348-05:00Just discovered your blog. Enjoying reading the o...Just discovered your blog. Enjoying reading the older posts. Viva Oaxaca!Michael Andersen-Andradehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02643352800790440383noreply@blogger.com