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Community and the continuity of culture
A culture remains alive while there is a community that practices it, transforms it, and shares it.
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Community and the continuity of culture
Knowledge does not survive on its own.
It continues because people gather to teach, learn, celebrate, and work together.
Community and the continuity of culture
In the Mè'phàà community, culture lives in speech, in collective work, in fiestas, in music, in dance, and in respect for the shared territory.
Community and the continuity of culture
Today this knowledge faces many challenges.
Migration, the abandonment of the fields, discrimination, violence, and the declining use of the language are changing how new generations learn from their elders.
Community and the continuity of culture
When a language stops being spoken, or a body of knowledge stops being shared, it is not only a custom that disappears.
A unique way of understanding nature, community, and life is also lost.
Mayordomía procession in the rain in Laguna Seca.
Each body of knowledge holds a different way of inhabiting the world.
Portrait of Maestro Abertano Gerónimo Cantú García.
Community reminds us who we are.
Church courtyard in Laguna Seca.
Culture continues while there are people willing to share it.
Community and the continuity of culture
Memory lives in those who choose to keep walking with their community.