Blossoms of fire /

Blossoms of Fire is a bright, amiable chronicle of the vivid lives of the women of Juchitán, a small, sun-soaked city on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico. Celebrated by artists like Miguel Covarrubias and Frida Kahlo, Tehuantepec women are already famous, or perhaps infamous for being v...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Intrépidas Productions, New Yorker Films, New Yorker Video (Firm)
Other Authors:	Gosling, Maureen (Producer, Director), Osborne, Ellen, 1954- (Producer, Director), Hanna, Toni (Screenwriter)
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	Spanish Zapotec
Language Notes:	In Spanish and Zapotec with English subtitles.
Published:	New York, NY : New Yorker Films : [2006]
Subjects:	Zapotec women > Social life and customs. Matriarchy > Mexico > Juchitán de Zaragoza. Businesswomen > Mexico > Juchitán de Zaragoza. Embroidery > Mexico > Juchitán de Zaragoza. Juchitán de Zaragoza (Mexico) Documentary films. Nonfiction films.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: a unique flair
Matriarchy myth
Maria's marinated plums
Pulsing heart
Pulling together
Sense of entitlement
Fluid concept of gender
Mother, cultural teacher
Isthmus in full bloom
Times call for it
Day the sun dies
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