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Totonaca Symbols
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Copyright: Elias Castillo (manatee)
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| Genre: Lieux |
| Média: Couleur |
| Date de prise de vue: 2005-10-09 |
| Catégories: Architecture |
| Exposition: f/2.6 |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Versions: version originale |
| Date de soumission: 2006-09-13 3:05 |
| Vue: 806 |
| Points: 10 |
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| [Ligne directrice - Note] Note du photographe |
This is one of the symbols the poeple use in this museum to decorate the facade. The Totonaca culture is part of the dayli life in this area and has been introduce many words in the spanish in this region, in fact the mass, radio or news paper has a especial place for the Totonac speakers.
I'm upload some pictures of my culture and my country because this week, we celebrate the indepence, so I hope you can enjoy it this.
There is somoe information about this languaje.
The Totonacan Languages are a family of closely-related languages spoken by approximately 200,000 speakers in the states of Veracruz, Puebla, and Hidalgo in Mexico. The Totonacan languages are not demonstrably related to any other languages, although they show numerous areal features with other languages of the Mesoamerican sprachbund such as the Mayan languages and Nahuatl.
Language Status
Although the family is traditionally divided into two languages, Totonac and Tepehua, the various dialects thereof are not mutually intelligible and thus Totonac and Tepehua are better characterized as families in themselves. The following preliminary classification appears to be generally accepted:
Totonac Papantla Totonac, North-Central Totonac, South-Central Totonaca, Misantla Totonac, Tepehua, Tlachichilco Tepehua, Huehuetla Tepehua, Pisa Flores Tepehua
This classification will likely evolve as more reconstructive work is done on the family.
Like many indigenous languages of Mexico, these languages are slowly giving way to Spanish. Of them, however, only Misantla Totonac is in immediate danger of extinction; the rest appear to be spoken in viable language communities.
Totonacan grammatical traits
Like many American Indian languages, the Totonacan languages are highly agglutinative and polysynthetic. Furthermore, they exhibit many features of the Mesoamerican areal type, such as a preference for verb-initial order, head-marking, and extensive use of body part roots in metaphorical and locative constructions.
Two features distinctive of Totonacan are worth mentioning in further detail: first, the comitative construction, and secondly body-part incorporation. The examples that follow are taken from Misantla Totonac, but illustrate processes found in all the Totonacan languages.
The Comitative Construction
One typologically unusual feature of Totonacan morphology is the fact that a verb may be inflected for more than one subject. For example, a verb "run" may be inflected with both 1st person and 2nd person subject affixes simultaneously to give a sentence meaning "You and I run", "You run with me", or "I run with you".
Iklaatsaa'layaa'n. Ik-laa-tsaa'la-yaa-'-na 1s-COM-run-imperf-2s-COM "You and I run".
Body-Part Incorporation
The Totonacan languages exhibit noun incorporation, but only special prefixing combing forms of body-part roots may be incorporated. When these roots are incorporated, they serve to delimit the verb's the locus of affect -- that is, they indicate which part of the subject or object is affected by the action.
Ikintsuu'ksaan. Ik-kin-tsuu'ks-yaa-na 1s-nose-kiss-imperf-2o "I kiss your nose. (Lit: "I nose-kiss you.")
Tuuxqatka'n. tuu-xqat-kan-'foot-wash-REFL-2s "You wash your foot/feet" (Lit: "You foot-wash yourself".)
A body-part root acting as a non-agentive subject may also be incorporated.
Ikaa'ka'tsan. Ik-kaa'k-ka'tsan 1s-head-hurt "My head hurts." (Lit: "I head-hurt".)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totonac_language |
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Hi Elias,
Perfect architecture details.Great lights, colours and composition.Bravo. Best wishes my friend.
hAyAti
Hola Elias, excellent perspective of these wonderful sculpural details. I love these symbols and I remember some sun signs symbols that I bought in Mexico, but i'm not sure if it was from the Totonaca language, but I guess, from your good informative note (another long one, hehehe), that this is a general one that includes all of them. This also seems as if you rotate the image, but could be an illusion...I like your black frame. Very good definition of the image. I really like it!
Have a good night sleep,
Ricardo
Whooo, exelente nota y buena foto, al fin y al cabo una persona que nos enseña Mexico, lo repito, eso es muy bueno, Mexico tiene una mezcla cultural que falta por conocer.
Soy estudiante en estrategias para el desarollo agricola régional, me enfoco al tema de la acción colectiva y el capital social (entender los procesos de organización, interrelaciones, conflictos cooperación... en grupos de mujeres). Sociología pues.
Un saludo y abrazo desde Puebla.
Hola Amigo:)
Nice close-up with good dof my friend.
I like your composition,colors,dof and note.TFS
PS:I have 2 daughters.Oldest one is 5 yrs old and other only 18 months old:)
Cheers,
Chris
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An interesting dof producing a pertinent visual effect with this subject. I just wish you have skipped the man in the back ground.
Stéphane
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