Jonathan D. Amith is a Doctor of Anthropology and an independent scholar affiliated with Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, Gettysburg College, and the University of Chicago.
Donated by Jonathan D. Amith, 2020.
Access to the materials in this collection for the purpose of reading, copying, or other use will be granted only with the donor's permission within 25 years of the date of the Jacobs Research Fund award. After 25 years, the collection will revert to UW Libraries Special Collections.
Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.
Materials relating to research done by Jonathan D. Amith under the Jacobs Research Fund grant including audio recordings and transcriptions of conversations and plant names in Totonac, plant collection metadata, photographs, and illustrated field guides. Includes research from two Totonac-speaking communities in the Sierra Norte de Puebla: Zongozotla and Tonalixco, done with a team of native speakers from Zongozotla headed by Osbel López Francisco.
The Totonac are an indigenous people of Mexico who reside in the states of Veracruz, Puebla, and Hidalgo. The term "Totonac" refers to the people living in Totonacapan, which is a region in the modern states of Veracruz and Puebla as well as the historical extension where the Totonac people of Mexico dominated. They traditionally speak Totonac, which forms a small language family with Tepehua. Totonacan languages aren't related to other Native Mesoamerican languages such as those in the Mayan, Oto-Manguean, or Uto-Aztecan families.
Work in Zongozotla, a Totonac-speaking community in the Sierra Norte de Puebla and the native village of main consultant, Osbel López Francisco.
Discussions of plants.
Discussion of food preparation.
Discussion of "mythical" beings.
Fictional stories.
Includes Wav files and Elicitation Lists.
Discussions of animals.
Discussions of plants.
Discussion of "mythical" beings.
Discussions of animals.
Includes photos taken in the field from villages: Cuautempan, Zongozotla, Zoquiapan, and Atlequizayán.
Metadata includes: municipality of the collection, filename of the photo, collection to which the photo corresponds, photographer, summary description of the photo, particularly what part of the plant was photographed.
Work in Tonalixco in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, a relatively undocumented Totonac village to the west and the only Totonac-speaking community in the otherwise Nahuatl-speaking municipality of Tepetzintla.
Collection labels from Tepetzintla and Tlaquimpa, municipalities in the Sierra Norte de Puebla.