Here are some videos made by NEH faculty and NEH Summer Scholars, plus some additional, recommended videos that you might like to use in your curricular units.
Clips shot in Oaxaca by Gabriela Martínez:
- Manuscript Rescue (documentary teaser), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E40gtR_XJdc
- Guelaguetza Parade, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EnFiuzmD14
- Chocolate mills, Mina Street, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvpC_acLhcI
- Santo Domingo Cultural Center, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs2R2Qcn4Vk
- Allende Street, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olUq-sqmmQI
- Market scenes, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMOzAgoRUis
- Mercado artesanal Calle Alcalá, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhz37XTu8DM (from July 2010)
- Monte Albán, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZJ-6RBJ9ds (from March 2010)
- Teotitlan del Valle, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf0cDz22LzA (from March 2010)
San Marcos Tlapazola pottery making, by Nicole Caracciolo:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9PkGHOM-_E&feature=youtube_gdata
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoqd3FIbsrk&feature=youtube_gdata
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFdq-i3rWQ&feature=youtube_gdata
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEg4xnxujZA&feature=youtube_gdata
Casa de la Mujer Scholarship Fund for Indigenous Girls (we may get to visit this Casa):
- Lila Downs y el Fondo de Becas Guadalupe Musalem
- Go here, scroll down a little, and look on the right side of the page for a video: http://gesmujer.org/
Mamaz (Mujeres, Artistas, y el Maíz), an earlier project about women, artists, and maize, curated by Marietta Bernstorff
YouTube Videos about Codices
- Códices (2’50” Spanish; an overview of mss in the Museo Nacional de Antropología) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R8cheZAKqQ
- ¿Cómo se leen los Códices? (1’47” Spanish; a brief overview about the reading order of different types of codices; from INAHTV) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6DxiYdvz1k
- Códice Mixteco Nuttall: Animales Prehispánicos (3′ 34″ opening text-based slides in Spanish; no narration; drawings are re-created from the codex emphasizing pre-Hispanic animals; not individually identified) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5byr5rGx7vY&feature=related
- Códice Florentino [Book 12, The Conquest] (5’11” images with text in Spanish) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r64CApew5Zo&feature=related
- Amoxtli “Libro de Anahuac,” “Codices de Anahuac” (3′ 06″ Spanish), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU61pR3qhDo&feature=fvsr
YouTube Videos about Yucundaa
- Dr. Ronald Spores lecturing at Yucundaa (59″ in English), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QebSjeZij5w
- Yucundaa y su historia” (4’04” in Spanish) about a mural in Teposcolula, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJQHaoTHXFI
- Yucundaa: Cerro de la Flor (13′ 45″ in Spanish), http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1475913/yucundaa_cerro_de_la_flor/
YouTube Videos about the Guelaguetza Dances
- Huajuapan dance festival, 2007, in slides (introduction in Mixteco), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ipQEwI_UO0
- Járabe Mixteco (from Huajuapan) (5 min.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pzyt4CnyNI
- there are many more; you can Google these
YouTube Videos about Oaxacan Foods (A Sub-Theme of Ethnobiology)
- Gastronomía Oaxaqueña (2′ 54″ Spanish) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whE1XaGHdew&feature=related
- How to Make a Mole (5′ 20″ Spanish) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSsQc1vGguQ
- How to Make a Mole Sauce (English) http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-make-mole-sauce/
- Mole Negro (2′ 24″ Spanish) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEUhGA5LxiI&feature=related
YouTube Video — mud cures, state of Oaxaca (Spanish, 15 min.), “Oaxaca y sus tradiciones ancestrales” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FBOXTdhXvcYouTube Videos — Animation and 3-D Representing Mesoamerica
- Codex: The Legend of Quetzalcoatl (animation; no verbal narrative)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6soW6PixKJ8&feature=related
- Centro Cultural Santo Domingo de Guzmán en 3-D (42″) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X63LNfO_7Rs
INAHTV (in Spanish only), produced by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia:
- Cuevas Prehistóricas en Oaxaca (about the caves with evidence of ancient human activity) (1′ 56″) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqlKfzn9aY
- Sala Culturas de Oaxaca, Museo Nacional de Antropología (2′ 27″) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HrkZ3RXUHY&feature=related
- Museo de las Culturas, Oaxaca (1′ 35″) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7tNJ7keezc&feature=related
- Danza del viento y la lluvia (Santa Cruz Mitlatongo, Mixteca region)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obM5xe7ElrM
- El baile del viento y la lluvia [about the making of the documentary] (Santa Cruz Mitlatongo, Mixteca region) (2′ 46″) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfR187WZtCs
- Ruta de los Conventos Agustinos (3′ 01″) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1suJdSJxXE
See also our links page, Open Access Videos, which may have some redundancy with this page.