Mazatec
{{Short description|Indigenous People of Mexico}}
{{for|the languages|Mazatecan languages}}
{{Infobox ethnic group|
|group=Mazatec
Ha Shuta Enima
|image=249px
|caption=Mazatec girls performing a dance in Huautla de Jimenez
|population=~305,836
|rels=Roman Catholic, and Traditional religion
|related=Popolocas
}}
The Mazatec are an Indigenous people of Mexico who inhabit the Sierra Mazateca in the state of Oaxaca and some communities in the adjacent states of Puebla and Veracruz.
Some researchers have theorized that the Mazatec, along with Popoloca speakers, once inhabited the lowlands of the Papaloapan basin, but were driven into the adjacent highlands by the expansion of Nahuas.Wauchope, R. (2015). Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 7 and 8: Ethnology. United States: University of Texas Press. pg 325
Language family
The Mazatecan languages are part of the Popolocan family which, in turn, is part of the Otomanguean language family.
Traditional religious rituals
Mazatec tradition includes the cultivation of entheogens for spiritual and ritualistic use. Plants and fungi used for this purpose include psilocybin mushrooms, psychoactive morning glory seeds (from species such as Ipomoea tricolor and Ipomoea corymbosa), and Salvia divinorum.Jean Basset Johnson (1939) The elements of Mazatec witchcraft, Etnologiska Studier 9:128-150.Valdés et al. (1983){{Cite web |last=Osiris Sinuhé González Romero |date=2022-02-10 |title=Mazatec Shamanic Knowledge and Psilocybin Mushrooms |url=https://chacruna.net/mazatec-shamanism-and-psilocybin-mushrooms/ |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=Chacruna |language=en-US}} This latter plant is known to Mazatec shamans as ska María Pastora, the name containing a reference to the Virgin Mary.
Notable Mazatecs
See also
{{Portal|Indigenous peoples of the Americas}}
Notes
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References
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- {{cite book |author=Campbell, Lyle |author-link=Lyle Campbell |year=1997 |title=American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America |edition=OUP paperback edition, 2000|series=Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 4 |others=William Bright (series general ed.)|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York |isbn=978-0-19-509427-5 |oclc=32923907}}
- {{cite web|author=CDI [Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas] |author-link=Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas |year=2004–2007 |title=Mazatecos - Ha shuta Enima |url=http://cdi.gob.mx/index.php?id_seccion=305 |work=Información: Los pueblos indígenas de México |publisher=CDI |access-date=2007-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609231402/http://cdi.gob.mx/index.php?id_seccion=305 |archive-date=2007-06-09 |language=es |url-status=dead }}
- {{cite book |author=Karttunen, Frances E. |author-link=Frances Karttunen |year=1994 |title=Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors |location=New Brunswick, NJ |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0-8135-2030-8 |oclc=28150669 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/betweenworldsint00kartrich }}
- {{cite encyclopedia |author=Mooney, James|year=1911 |title=Mazatec Indians |encyclopedia=Catholic Encyclopedia |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10093a.htm |edition=New Advent online reproduction |volume=X |location=New York |publisher=Robert Appleton and Company |access-date=2007-05-02}}
- {{cite journal |author=Valdés, Leander J., III |author2=José Luis Díaz |author3=Ara G. Paul |year=1983 |title=Ethnopharmacology of ska María Pastora (Salvia divinorum, Epling and Játiva-M)|journal=Journal of Ethnopharmacology|volume=7|issue=3|pages=287–312|doi=10.1016/0378-8741(83)90004-1 |pmid=6876852|hdl=2027.42/25229 |hdl-access=free}}
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External links
- [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10093a.htm Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia]
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{{Indigenous people of Oaxaca}}
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Category:Indigenous peoples in Mexico