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The ruling gives the Indigenous group the right to decide on how they maintain and protect their own identities.
Oaxaca’s congress has just awarded Cultural and Intangible Heritage status to the designs, costumes, handicrafts as well as the languages spoken by the Indigenous peoples of a community called Mixe.
The ruling concluded that Indigenous peoples and communities have the social right to maintain, develop, preserve and protect their own identities and the elements that comprise them.
Locals dancing in their traditional dresses during the Fiesta Guelaguetza, Oaxaca
They are also being protected in order to preserve their traditions and customs through cultural programs and public policies, which are meant to support the conservation of textiles and design.
The ruling gives the communities the right to choose how they maintain and protect their own identities.
Whereas the term “Cultural Heritage” used to be limited to monuments and physical buildings, UNESCO has expanded its meaning to encompass traditions and lived expressions inherited and passed on to new generations, oral traditions, performance arts, festive events as well as knowledge and techniques related to traditional crafts.
The “rebranded” dress as shown at the designers website
The declaration comes after French designers used a traditional blouse of the community of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, Mixe, and presented it as their own design in July 2015. The two designers, Antik Batik and Isabel Marant, repackaged the blouse and put a US$365 price tag on it, causing outrage among those in the community as well as activists on Twitter.
This winter storm that’s supposed to be coming tomorrow (Wed) is making me angry. It isn’t even winter anymore! 3 to 6 inches of snow and an inch of ice???? Are you kidding me??? Fuck the weather this month. This is why I hate March.
I keep hoping it won’t be as bad as they say, but we’ll have to see.
One of the first Maya rulers is depicted in this relief sculpture as divine. He stands between a bird on the top of the monument and the open mouth of an earthly creature beneath his feet. This particular portrayal of the ruler, who wears an avian mask, indicates his role as the spiritual bridge between the heavens and the underworld.
Kaminaljuyu Stela 11, Guatemala, dating to the Late Classic period. Drawing by John Montgomery, 2000.
Ken Johnson, an officer with the Farmers Branch police force in Dallas County, has been arrested on charges of murder and aggravated assault in the fatal weekend shooting of Jose Cruz.
Cruz, a 16-year-old Latino, was chased in a car by Johnson on Sunday. The officer was off-duty and suspected Cruz and another another boy named Edgar Rodriguez had attempted to break into a vehicle. Johnson then opened fire, fatally wounding Cruz and seriously wounding Rodriguez, who has since been hospitalized. Both Cruz and Rodriguez were unarmed.
Did you know? Dinosaurs never really vanished from Earth. Most did go extinct, but their evolutionary legacy lives on all around us, in birds. The Museum’s new exhibition Dinosaurs Among Us will highlight the unbroken line between the charismatic dinosaurs that dominated the planet for about 170 million years and modern birds, a link that is marked by shared features including feathers, wishbones, enlarged brains, and extremely efficient respiratory systems. Pictured is an Oviraptorosaur, a cousin to the T.rex but a closer cousin to modern birds.
Purchase a Museum membership and enjoy an exclusive opportunity to see the new exhibition Dinosaurs Among Us on March 18-20, before it opens to the public.
