El juego de pelota mixteca entre los afrodescendientes de la Costa Chica: relaciones interétnicas a través del juego

Reyna, Citlali Quecha

doi:10.1016/j.antro.2016.03.003

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“…The players I interviewed explicitly link pelota mixteca with socially obligated relationships of exchange and reciprocity. Examples of these relationships exist in other areas, particularly among majority-Indigenous communities (Monaghan 1990;Reyna 2016;Royce 2011). In the Mixtec fiesta system known as saa sa'a, households build relationships between themselves by participating in a cycle of hosting and attending (or not attending) fiestas.…”

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“…While my research focused on the Central Valleys and Mixteca Alta, pelota mixteca is also played on the Costa Chica (Reyna 2016), the coastal region shared between Oaxaca and Guerrero. Games are played on Sundays; “ el domingo tenemos compromise ,” “Sunday we have an engagement,” is a common saying there.…”

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“…At the same time, there is evidence for shared ceremonial practices, suggesting that ideological pluralism was a strategic choice. Likewise, pelota mixteca players and teams come from different communities with their own local practices in other social areas, but how to play is shared (Reyna 2016;Stoll 2015).…”

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“…Pelota mixteca de hule (hereafter pelota mixteca ) is the most popular and widely played. The Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México lists 55 municipalities (out of 570) in Oaxaca that still have a pelota mixteca field, mostly in the Mixteca Alta and Central Valleys (Reyna 2016:14), although many more existed in the past. Players use colorfully painted, vulcanized rubber balls weighing one kg and specially produced by a factory in Mexico City (Figure 2).…”

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“…Men attend games on whichever day the celebration falls on, which means taking time from work to travel. Players can spend up to half their year traveling on pelota mixteca match circuits (Reyna 2016), just as people in the past traveled in local and regional networks to attend ballgames and other celebratory activities (Abbot 2006).…”

Section: How To Play Pelota Mixtecamentioning

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Es nuestra tradición: the archaeological implications of an ethnography on a modern ballgame in Oaxaca, Mexico

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Pre-hispanic ballgames have an extensive temporal depth and geographical breadth across Mesoamerica, with over 1,500 ball courts recorded on 1,200 archaeological sites in Mexico alone. It is likely that ballgames played critical but variable roles in how communities related to each other. Most interpretations emphasize ballgames as cosmological rituals and legitimation practices exclusive to elites, perhaps often overlooking the more mundane sociopolitical processes and reasons why they carried such critical meaning for people of all classes and statuses. Ethnographic research on modern ballgames played by Indigenous and mestizo communities today can helpfully provide some insights or maybe deeper understandings into ancient ballgame practices and their relation to Mesoamerican communities. While modern games are not isomorphic with the ancient games, the duration of these traditions underscores their continuing importance and their relativity to current research. In this article I present the results of an ethnographic study of the modern ballgame pelota mixteca de hule (Mixtec rubber ballgame) in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Considering the results from the ethnographic data, I then discuss an archaeological case study in the Nejapa Valley of southeastern Oaxaca where numerous ballcourts were recently documented over the past decade.

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El juego de pelota mixteca entre los afrodescendientes de la Costa Chica: relaciones interétnicas a través del juego

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Es nuestra tradición: the archaeological implications of an ethnography on a modern ballgame in Oaxaca, Mexico

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