This 156-page book, in Sierra Juárez Zapotec, contains 32 stories and legends from four communities in the Sierra Juárez region of Oaxaca, Mexico: San Pablo Yaganiza, San Mateo Cajonos, Santo Domingo Xagacfa, and Guadalupe el Carrizal. About 500,000 people speak one or more of the 58 Zapotec languages in Mexico, including about 5,000 who speak Sierra Juárez Zapotec. The book is illustrated with line drawings by the author, Alfredo Ríos Belem, who also provides a 10-page introduction, in Spanish, to the writing system used today for Sierra Zapotec. The author writes in a prologue that he is presenting the work in his Zapotec language so that the people of these communities will “know and value through reading, the mental and physical power” of these tales and legends.
Indigenous Language: Zapotec
Full indigenous language title: KA TEKS CHSO’ONHAN NHA’ DILL GOLHZ GAKAN
Metropolitan/Colonial Language: Spanish
Full metropolitan/colonial language title: CUENTOS Y LEYENDAS YAGANIZA, SAN MATEO, XAGACÍA Y CARRIZAL
Author: Alfredo Ríos Belen
Year: 1994
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