Month: March 2009

An Old Map, Little Black Fruits, and Female Spirits

From the Field: Americas Research Interest Group by Gabriela Martínez, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication and Stephanie Wood, Senior Research Associate, CSWS Today we went to some Zapotec communities not far from Oaxaca city, accompanied by Beatriz (“Bety”)…

Monoliths, Silk Worms, and Scholarships

From the Field: Americas Research Interest Group by Stephanie Wood, Senior Research Associate, CSWS Oaxaca, Mexico—On March 22nd Gabriela Martínez and I went deep into the Mixteca Alta to visit an archive in search of early manuscripts (kind of a…

Reconstructing the Lives of Zapotec Women

From the Field: Americas Research Interest Group by Gabriela Martínez, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication and Stephanie Wood, Senior Research Associate, CSWS Oaxaca, Mexico—Yesterday, we began work on a pilot film for a larger documentary on the “triple…