Culture Boxes
Through our collaboration with the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), another Title VI Center, LARC was first able to develop an online Culture Box for Mixtec, based on Lynn Eddy-Zambrano’s original idea for hands-on exploration of authentic cultural artifacts stored in a box. The authentic culture box that was transported from classroom to classroom, has been made virtual online with digital audio, images and video of the authentic artifacts. Following the example of the Mixtec Culture Box, and another was produced for Persian with hopes to add more for other cultures.
Culture Box Links
Mixtec Culture Box
Mixtec
Mixtec Language & Culture
Mixtec is one of eight branches of the Otomanguean language family, a family accounting for about a third of all the indigenous language speakers in Mexico today. It is spoken primarily in the state of Oaxaca, but there are significant groups of Mixtec speakers in the states of Puebla and Guerrero. In addition, migration has had the effect of creating significant Mixtec communities in the U.S., primarily in California. The Mixtec Language & Culture project is an online trilingual website that uses Spanish and English to present the cultural differences of greeting people in Mixtec. It offers some basic grammar, translations and transcriptions for these video resources.