Describing how to build a house in Cancuc

Explicación sobre la construcción de la casa en Cancuc

Object Details

Subject LanguageTzeltal
Language PID(s)ailla:119666
Title [Indigenous]Xcholel bit'il ta pasel te akul na ta K'ankujk
Language of Indigenous Titletzh
TitleDescribing how to build a house in Cancuc
Language CommunityTseltal de Cancuc
Country(ies)Mexico
Place CreatedCancuc, Chiapas
Date Created2007-06-28
Description [Indigenous]
Language of Indigenous Description
DescriptionThis recording consists of an interview about the way that they used to build houses of wood and straw, called "akul na" in Tseltal, a practice that they discontinued years ago. Sr. Antonio López tells how one begins to level the site of a new house, how they look for posts, straw, crossties for binding, crossties that grow in Te'max, like those vines for tying things; later how they begin to set the posts and tie together the structure of the house, to look for the type of earth and to plaster it on the wall or wattle. He also tells how one searched for the woman or man who knows how to pray (in Tseltal ch'ab), so the house doesn't "eat" us (that it doesn't kill us), and how in the prayer they offer the head of a chicken. On this theme, he agrees that before there wsa just one prayerman named Ortones, who was the only one who did this type of prayer.
Passing on to another subject, Sr. Antonio López explains the way that they used to get married in the village years ago and in the present day, how before they would meet in the road, but how in time they began to ask for her hand in the father's house, and how today the young people decide who they want to marry.
GenresProcedure
Description
Source Note070628_Cancuc_centro_Antonio_Lopez_Cruz
References
Contributor(s) Individual / RolePolian, Gilles (Researcher)
López, Antonio (Speaker)
Figuerola, Helios (Researcher)
Contributor(s) Corporate / Role

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