Mazatec
 Mazatec girls performing a dance inHuautla de Jimenez | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| ~305,836 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Mexico(Oaxaca) | |
| Languages | |
| Mazatec,Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholic,and Traditional religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Popolocas |
TheMazatecare anIndigenous people of Mexicowho inhabit theSierra Mazatecain the state ofOaxacaand some communities in the adjacent states ofPueblaandVeracruz.
Some researchers have theorized that the Mazatec, along with Popoloca speakers, once inhabited the lowlands of thePapaloapan basin,but were driven into the adjacent highlands by the expansion ofNahuas.[1]
Language family
[edit]TheMazatecan languagesare part of thePopolocan familywhich, in turn, is part of theOtomangueanlanguage family.
Traditional religious rituals
[edit]Mazatec tradition includes the cultivation ofentheogensfor spiritual and ritualistic use. Plants and fungi used for this purpose includepsilocybin mushrooms,psychoactivemorning gloryseeds (from species such asIpomoea tricolorandIpomoea corymbosa), andSalvia divinorum.[2][3][4]This latter plant is known toMazatec shamansasska María Pastora,the name containing a reference to theVirgin Mary.[3]
Notable Mazatecs
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Notes
[edit]- ^Wauchope, R. (2015). Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 7 and 8: Ethnology. United States: University of Texas Press. pg 325
- ^Jean Basset Johnson(1939) The elements of Mazatec witchcraft, Etnologiska Studier 9:128-150.
- ^abValdéset al.(1983)
- ^Osiris Sinuhé González Romero (2022-02-10)."Mazatec Shamanic Knowledge and Psilocybin Mushrooms".Chacruna.Retrieved2022-04-15.
References
[edit]- Campbell, Lyle(1997).American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America.Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 4.William Bright(series general ed.) (OUP paperback edition, 2000 ed.). New York:Oxford University Press.ISBN978-0-19-509427-5.OCLC32923907.
- CDI [Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas](2004–2007)."Mazatecos - Ha shuta Enima".Información: Los pueblos indígenas de México(in Spanish). CDI. Archived fromthe originalon 2007-06-09.Retrieved2007-05-02.
- Karttunen, Frances E.(1994).Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors.New Brunswick, NJ:Rutgers University Press.ISBN978-0-8135-2030-8.OCLC28150669.
- Mooney, James (1911)."Mazatec Indians".Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. X (New Advent online reproduction ed.). New York: Robert Appleton and Company.Retrieved2007-05-02.
- Valdés, Leander J., III; José Luis Díaz; Ara G. Paul (1983). "Ethnopharmacology ofska María Pastora(Salvia divinorum,Epling and Játiva-M) ".Journal of Ethnopharmacology.7(3): 287–312.doi:10.1016/0378-8741(83)90004-1.hdl:2027.42/25229.PMID6876852.
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| 20,000 – 100,000 people | ||
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