Articles about "wixárika"

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The sonic border of the wixaritari ceremonial experts. Liminality for the control and protection of the rains.

  • Xilonen María del Carmen Luna Ruiz

The sonic border is a sensitive state. It is the perception of a corporeal presence of sonorities that circulate in space-time: actions, emotions and behaviors. Wixaritari ceremonial experts of Tierra Azul identify with the word 'enierika: visio-audiciones or audito-visiones (nierika) in liminal divine auditory interstice, in demand of the analogies of ancestral history and ritual practice. The rebirth of life is to take hold of the control and permanence of the rains, to consummate the cycles of darkness-light. Through cosmopolitics, the divine sonic iconicity intervenes in agrarian territorial limits, the defense of the cosmogonic territory and in controlling ancestral disagreements.

Reseñas críticas

Grandes maestros del arte wixárika. Acervo Juan Negrín

Cabañas Cultural Institute, June to October 2019, Guadalajara, 84 works.

Wixárika art, a door of recognition to the sacred

  • Isaac Mariscal

With regard to the exhibition Great masters of Wixárika art. Juan Negrín Collection, exhibited at the Cabañas Institute from June 20 to October 2019, I present the following reflections on the approach to Wixaritari sacred art through the museum or commercial medium.

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Apprentice and philosopher: Juan Negrín's Wixárika heritage

  • Diana Negrin da Silva

TO Over the course of 44 years, Juan dedicated his efforts to compiling data on the language, oral history, sacred and contemporary art, as well as the rituals of the Wixárika people. Starting with art and continuing with territorial defense through autonomous productive projects, this work has bequeathed a unique heritage on the Wixárika culture. Negrín's writings include notebooks, diaries, multiple handwritten and typewritten drafts, but he also left hundreds of audios, mainly conversations with artists and the elderly. kawiterutsiri, where core concepts of the Wixárika worldview are deepened.