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Desai is a literary watercolorist who writes as if TV had not been invented, registering sounds and sights as a way to suggest more subtle currents underneath. As she describes Mexico, her prose catches fire with the smoke of copal, the "shriveled scorpions and fried grasshoppers" the Zapotec women lay out on the sidewalks, the trucks "rattling over cobbles the shape and size of human skulls." The skeletons that dance behind even a hotel reception desk remind us that the past here has the present in its thrall...
CANONIZED. JUAN DIEGO CUAUHTLATOATZIN, 16th century peasant from the Zapotec tribe, whose vision of the Virgin of Guadalupe helped drive the conversion of millions of Indians throughout the Americas; in Mexico City. On his fifth trip to Mexico, Pope John Paul II performed the canonization, the first for a member of an indigenous North American tribe...
...self-respecting crossroads is without its annual film festival, but in the U.S. the idea has taken root only in San Francisco. Last week the top prize at San Francisco's Fifth Annual International Film Festival went to Animas Trujano, a Mexican picture about a slow-witted Zapotec Indian, played, curiously enough, by Japan's Toshiro Mifune. But -as is customary at film festivals-the most talked-about film in town was not the big winner. It was a cartoon from Communist Yugoslavia called Ersatz...
Archaeologists generally have accepted five Mexican cultures-Mayan, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Totonac and Olmec-as being the oldest in North America, and have dated them around A.D. 300. But last week tests performed at the University...
Down with the Phalanx. For Tamayo, a proud Mexican and fullblood Zapotec Indian, such success is sweet balm for long years of struggle in Manhattan and of official ostracism in his own city. Outside Mexico Tamayo has in recent years won a hatful of international awards, including a $5,000 first prize at Sāo Paulo's 1953 biennial, a second in last year's Carnegie International (but not the Barcelona Biennial grand prize, which Tamayo turned down, later explaining: "I am not on good terms with Mr. Franco"). At home Tamayo, outspokenly antiCommunist, has been...