REVISTA DE HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES

THE NAHUA AND OTOMY TEXTILES (ART, TRADITION AND ABORIGIN CULTURAL DYNAMICS)

Authors

  • Arturo Gómez Martínez

Abstract

The aborigin textiles from Mexico form part of the cultural and historical processes of a diverse territory
speaking about ethnic identities and rich in artistic expressions, through the body clothes are the suitable
vehicles where the symbols are personified as communicative codes of the power, the social stratifycation, the
fashion, the aesthetics appreciation and the economical configuration; fabrics have been the reason of
technological inventions and aesthetics reflections, the use of the mathematics acquire a sens with the
mechanization of the technique to manufacture and the decorations establish the iconographical heritage
that remit us to the cosmogonic thought. This work is studyng the weaves and embroideries of Nahua and
otomies of the municipality of Pahuatán in the Estado de Puebla, both aboriginal towns have textile traditions
shared, but they also have elements that define and identify them.

Published

18-04-2021

How to Cite

Gómez Martínez, Arturo. 2021. “THE NAHUA AND OTOMY TEXTILES (ART, TRADITION AND ABORIGIN CULTURAL DYNAMICS)”. Revista Inclusiones, April, 74-99. https://www.revistainclusiones.org/index.php/inclu/article/view/2754.