Totonac
- proper noun
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Totonac
- Many Totonac people continue to speak their language, preserving their ancestral heritage.
- Totonac speakers
- Totonac community
- Totonac people
Examples
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Unlike other large-scale cultural events in Papantla, traditional Totonac dance is not merely an "opening act" that builds up towards a climax of ranchero and mariachi music, a trajectory from local to national "folk" cultures.
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Formerly, Totonac-speaking people were among the most prosperous of indigenous Mexico.
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A sixty-year-old man from a Totonac community relates how he "became an orphan at seven" when his father was killed.
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The destruction of this balanced system undermined the former prosperity of Totonac cultivators.
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The lowland Totonac agricultural system allowed for sustained productivity, ecological balance, and soil fertility.
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Today, in everyday, informal, and private interaction, Totonac speakers often evoke different social spaces and spatial practices hidden from the public ones.
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Nevertheless, Totonac speakers refuse to acknowledge their loss of centrality during the week-long fiesta.
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Dr. Adolfo Colombres's introduction to a Totonac oral history reflects the idealism of this endeavor:
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Of course, Cortes agreed and marched toward Anahuac with about 400 Spaniards, 200 Totonac bearers, and 40 chiefs as guides.
Fiction book (1992) -
On Thursday of Corpus, the cooperative efforts of Totonac-speaking men and women from a hundred surrounding communities recreate, affirm, and produce their own spatial meanings.
Academic text (1996)
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Totonac is the name of a native people and also the name of their language in eastern Mexico. To call someone a Totonac is to say they are a member of that people, and using Totonac for a language or tradition shows it comes from that community.
