Traditional wedding
Casamiento tradicional
Object Details
Subject Language | Tzeltal |
Language PID(s) | ailla:119666 |
Title [Indigenous] | Nujbinel |
Language of Indigenous Title | tzh |
Title | Traditional wedding |
Language Community | |
Country(ies) | Mexico |
Place Created | Oxchuc, Chiapas |
Date Created | 2009-07-16 |
Description [Indigenous] | |
Language of Indigenous Description | |
Description | This recording is of a traditional wedding and various interviews around the wedding of Sergio Alberto Ruíz Urbina and Virginia Lowe Gómez, granddaughter of Manuel Gómez K'ulub. At the beginning, we interview don Miguel Chitam and Vicente Morales, elder advisors (in Tseltal, tak'uwanej) of both couples; the presentation of Alejandro Ruíz Guzmán and Consuelo Urbina de la Cruz parents of the groom, originally from San Cristóbal; also the presentation of the parents of the bride, Ronald W. Lowe (of Utah, USA) and María Elena Gómez Sánchez, originally from Nabil town of Oxchuc, by don Manuel K'ulub. After the delivery of the traditional gift (wajmats') that contains plain pozole, pozole with chile, cornmeal with chili, tortillas, eggs, bean tamales, corn gruel and corn liquor. Later the couple goes on to receive advice kneeling in front of their parents and the elder advisors, where they are counseled as to how they should try, the same way the groom's parents go along on their knees also. Later on begins the sharing of the gifts that the groom gives to all the invited guests, and later they eat beef stew; finishing that they begin to dance to traditional music. At the end, are some interviews with the parents of the bride and groom. Note: Virginia is the little sister of Cristina Lowe Gómez who also had a traditional wedding in 2006, also in the house of don Manuel K'ulub. |
Genres | Ceremony Interview |
Source Note | 090716_1a_Oxchuc_nujbinel |
References | |
Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Polian, Gilles (Researcher) Méndez Girón, Juan (Researcher) Gómez Sánchez, María (Researcher) |
Contributor(s) Corporate / Role |
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