Producer unknown to us
Poster
Americas, Mexico, Oaxaca, Juchitán
Mid-20th century
Paper, printed and glued
Werner and Vera Hartwig (Ethnologists) acquired this poster during a teaching and research trip to Mexico 1975–77
Donated to the museum by Werner Hartwig in 1977
MAm 7864
This poster advertising an archaeological exhibition at the Lidxi Guedabizni (the Zapotec House of Culture by the Isthmus) in Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico, was acquired as “evidence of the cultural and cultural-political work of the Center for the Zapotec ethnic minority.” This catalog entry illustrates the collectors’ disciplinary interest in the resurgence and negotiation of Zapotec cultural identity in modern Mexico.
Werner and Vera Hartwig collected this piece during their research trip to Mexico 1975–77. One of the focal points of their trip was to study the living and social conditions and the cultural transition of Indigenous groups in Mexico. This idea was in line with the Marxist disciplinary interest of GDR ethnology, but especially with the research outline in Leipzig, which focused on the development of hierarchies and class societies in world history and on economic and social issues in history and ethnology.
Frank Usbeck