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Guelaguetza: The Gift Oaxaca Keeps Fighting Over

The Zapotecs had a word for it before there was a festival to attach it to. Guendalezaa — cooperation, exchange, gift, the thing a community does when it understands that what you carry belongs to more than you. Centuries before the Spanish arrived in Oaxaca with their crosses and their calendar, this principle was already running the harvest ceremonies that
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