Oaxaca

that are mental, brain, and heath in various ways. There are several effects that classical music affected people. The first of all is classical music effect on the mental. The Mexican research team are conducted an experiment on 79 patients of an Oaxaca clinic in eight weeks. The patients were diagnosed as suffering from low to medium levels of depression. The researchers only open the performance about classical music after that they report that depressions of some patients were improving in…

Countries in Central America are plagued with poverty, overruned by gang violence and ruled by government systems that don’t do enough for their people. The author of Enrique 's journey, Sonia Nazario paints a vivid picture of the circumstances that lead loving mothers to leave their children behind while venturing across America, in order to get to the promise land. A land charged with hopes and promises. Promises that are not always kind to immigrants. Immigrant mothers risk everything in…

Method in the Real World. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. In Cohen’s book, Eating Soup without a Spoon, the author writes about his experiences working for the first time out in the field. Having spent a year in the village of Santa Ana in Oaxaca, Mexico, Cohen details the process of fieldwork here, the trials, successes, and everyday life involved in anthropological fieldwork. Cohen’s intention in detailing these experiences is to show the reader what anthropological fieldwork is like.…

In chapter 5 of A World Full of Women Martha Ward and Monica Edelstein state, “In the FTZ (Free Trade Zones), women enter into new realms of power. They are subjected to new hierarchies, physical and sexual violence, forms of surveillance, and attacks on their reputations. They also find new avenues of freedom and independence,” (Ward & Edelstein, 109). In today’s world we recognize the importance of having economic, religious/ceremonial, political, material, and ideology power. Some cultures…

Throughout history throughout the world many men have developed a stereotype that has made women to be inferior to men. While women play vital roles in human life for the upbringing of a family and the well-being of them many times those jobs go unappreciated. In Mexico on the other hand, the roles of women not only have they been those of housewives nor of exploitation throughout history, but they had times where they played major roles like those of men. In many cases some of the roles that…

example of a food taboo in a different culture is pork, which is popular across much of the United States, but is forbidden in Jewish and Muslim cultures. In contrast, while many Americans would never eat a cockroach, it is acceptable to do so in Oaxaca,…

An artist’s world experience in life can be a major influence on how they create and develop their artworks. Frida Kahlo (born 1907, died 1954), Gordon Bennett (born Australia 1955) and Edvard Munch’s (born in 1863, died 1944, Ådalsbruk, Norway) are all famous artists from different times of the era who express their worlds from all display their extreme experiences and journeys in life throughout their artwork. Frida Kahlo's artwork 'The Miscarriage' made in 1932 displays Kahlo's experience…

“What 's gone on is still going on” (Professor Ambruster, lecture Oct. 6, 2014). History repeats itself over the years in different circ The Mexican lower-class society has gained rights throughout the years. The Mexican Constitution of 1824 was an almost perfect document where the people were given rights and they gained free elections. Even though this document was established, the promises were not actually put to practice. The population found itself in the same problems that had existed…

Finally, one of the most recognized indigenous Mexican groups is the Aztec, is also the most powerful kingdom of all time in Mesoamerica. This enormous empire reached from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf coast and from central Mexico to the present day-day Republic of Guatemala. Fifteen million people lived in thirty-eight provinces and residing in 489 communities paying tribute to the Emperor Moctezuma II in Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the great Aztec empire. The Aztec spoke a version of…

Illegal immigration It is night when the day begins by (Mother Jones November/ December 2004) explains how hard the life is for the Mexican people who migrate to America for a better life. In California San Joaquin Vicente and his wife Isabel wake up early in the morning. She start making some food for the following day and he get ready for going to work. Also the bakeries open early because people need to take a coffee and go to their work. A lot of workers work in the farm and…