Becoming an Ancestor

  • Becoming an Ancestor: The Isthmus Zapotec Way of Death
    Becoming an Ancestor: The Isthmus Zapotec Way of Death
    By Anya Peterson Royce

    Powerful and beautifully written, this is the story of the Isthmus Zapotecs of southern Mexico and their unbroken chain of ancestors and collective memory over the generations.

  • Becoming an Ancestor: With Our Roots in the Land
    Becoming an Ancestor: With Our Roots in the Land
    By Carole Zoerb

    And recoginizing that some stories are worth telling more than once, because in the retelling we find new understanding of what the story means to us and those we love.

  • Becoming an Ancestor: The Isthmus Zapotec Way of Death
    Becoming an Ancestor: The Isthmus Zapotec Way of Death
    By Anya Peterson Royce

    A striking look at the death rituals of an indigenous community in North America.

  • Becoming an Ancestor: ... Our Roots in the Land
    By Carole Zoerb

    And recoginizing that some stories are worth telling more than once, because in the retelling we find new understanding of what the story means to us and those we love.

  • Becoming an Ancestor
    Becoming an Ancestor
    By Lucille Day

    Poetry. "BECOMING AN ANCESTOR carries us from the very beginning of this great clock-universe through human migrations to the bitter end, where however a horned lark is singing beside a field of silver hairgrass in winter.