On September 13th, Ñuu Savi (or Mixtec) scholars and cultural practitioners Dr Omar Aguilar Sánchez and Izaira López Sánchez presented ‘Mixtec Codices and the Living Heritage of the Ñuu Savi’ at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of London (CLACS). They shared their academic research and current educational projects being developed with local communities in the states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Puebla in Mexico to promote the Tu’un Savi language and enhance understanding of Mixtec heritage among local communities.
Omar and Izaira have collaborated with SDCELAR on previous occasions, and this week they visited the British Museum to see the Tonindeye Codex for the first time, one of the few Mixtec pictorial manuscripts that narrates the lineage of the Mixtec dynasties and the story of the ruler Lord 8 Deer Jaguar Claw.
Watch Omar and Izaira’s presentation on Mixtec codices here.
LEARN MORE >> Listen to the history of the Tonindeye codex in our podcast Made in Latin America – Season 1
Publications related to women’s and maternal health with Wixárika communities by the author of this exhibition
Gamlin, Jennie B. (2013)
Shame as a barrier to health seeking among indigenous Huichol migrant labourers: An interpretive approach of the “violence continuum” and “authoritative knowledge”
Social Science and Medicine 97 75-81
Gamlin, Jennie B. (2023)
Wixárika Practices of Medical Syncretism: An Ontological Proposal for Health in the Anthropocene
Medical Anthropology Theory 10 (2) 1-26
Gamlin, Jennie B. (2020)
“You see, we women, we can’t talk, we can’t have an opinion…”. The coloniality of gender and childbirth practices in Indigenous Wixárika families
Social Science and Medicine 252, 112912
Jennie Gamlin and David Osrin (2020)
Preventable infant deaths, lone births and lack of registration in Mexican indigenous communities: health care services and the afterlife of colonialism
Ethnicity and Health 25 (7)
Jennie Gamlin and Seth Holmes (2018)
Preventable perinatal deaths in indigenous Wixárika communities: an ethnographic study of pregnancy, childbirth and structural violence BMC
Pregnancy and Childbirth 18 (Article number 243) 2018
Gamlin, Jennie B. and Sarah J Hawkes (2015)
Pregnancy and birth in an Indigenous Huichol community: from structural violence to structural policy responses
Culture, health and sexuality 17 (1)
