Spotlight On Jacobo Angeles - An Abundant Wood Carving
Tradition In Oaxaca, Mexico
Try searching your Americas to find designers of folk art work with more form, meaning and
importance for the development and sustenance of their culture, than those of...
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Spotlight On Jacobo Angeles - An Abundant Wood Carving
Tradition In Oaxaca, Mexico
Try searching your Americas to find designers of folk art work with more form, meaning and
importance for the development and sustenance of their culture, than those of indigenous roots in
Oaxaca (wa-HAW-ka), one of the southernmost philippine states.
Many so-called experts in people art have mistakenly written that the roots of Oaxaca s timber carving
tradition go as far back fifty or sixty miles per hour years, to a few carvers residing in one of the
central valleys regarding Oaxaca, a few a long way from the state cash of the same name.
The error
has consistently been equating the current commercialization of the art-form with its origins, and
ignoring its pre-Hispanic roots and following development.
Jacobo Ángeles lives regarding his wife Maríany and two children within San Martín Tilcajete, one of
three main native Zapotec villages, where many residents earn a living through carving and artwork
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