Tuesday, 5/28: The Presence in the Past

For today’s class, we’ll discuss the Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s essay “The Presence in the Past.” Trouillot’s work asks us …

Thursday 5/23: Cosmovisions

In class, we’ll react to the lecture on indigenous self-understanding before the conquest of the Yucatán. We’ll read from the Maya creation narrative, the Popol Vuh. Pictured above is a figurine representing a Maize god emerging from a ripe ear of corn (dates to the 7-9th century).

Visit the Cementerio General

8am-4:30pm every day. Walk among the 25,000 vaults, ossuaries, and mausoleums of the General Cemetery, one of Mexico’s oldest. Be prepared for bones!

May 24-25, La Noche Blanca

The White Night features hundreds of cultural events such as theatre, live music, dancing, visual art, street food vendors and many others. Mérida’s historic downtown turns into a giant street party! Events start at 7pm.

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Saturday Slow Food Market

From 9 to 1! Mérida’s farmers’ market promotes Slow Food values by nurturing organic production and supporting regional culinary traditions.

Visit Mérida’s Monumento a la Patria

The Monument to the Fatherland (1945-1956) was entirely sculpted by hand by artist Rómulo Rozo. The monuments bas reliefs—carved from locally quarried stone—feature more than three hundred hand-carved figures and trace the history of México from the founding of Tenochtitlán to the first half of the 20th century.