Publication
México : Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, 2006. Responsibility: Centro de Producción de Cortometraje, Estudios Churubusco Azteca ; guión, realización y fotografía, Nicolás Echevarría ; productor, Bosco Arochi. Notes: Originally produced as a documentary film in 1979. accompanying booklet (in Spanish) inserted in container. Contents: ¿Quien fue María Sabina? / Álvaro Estrada -- La santona alucinógena / Jorge Ayala Blanco -- María Sabina / Nicholás Echevarría -- Filmografía. pecial features: interview with and biography of Nicolás Echevarría. Credits: Music, Mario Lavista ; translations and texts, AÌlvaro Estrada, based on his book MariÌa Sabina, la sabia de los hongos ; editor, SauÌl Aupart. Performer(s): Featuring María Sabina ; narrator (Spanish language), Andrés Henestrosa
Language Note: Narration in Spanish, English, or French; some Mazateco dialog; subtitles in Spanish, English, or French.
OCLC Number: 931743143 . 1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Call number
DVD / Front Desk
ISBN
9789685042321
UPC
684898001112
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CSS Library Notes
Description: "Hasta hoy, cuando el cierre del milenio se acerca, la indigena mas famosa de Mexico hadra sido Maria Sabina, cuya fama se inicio hace 41 anos. Su nombre traspaso las fronteras porque, precisamente, la fama le vino del extranjero. Innumerables investigadores, intelectuales, escritores, pintores, poetas, musicos, curiosos y hasta politicos -con fines politics- se ocuparon o inspiron en ella. Procedentes de varias partes del mundo y aun caravanas de jovenes, hombres y mujeres, otros, no tan jovenes, la visitaron y conocieron. Algunos famosos del mundo estan ligados a su nombre en el entorno de la leyenda que como bruma misteriosa envuelve se historia. Fue llamada sacerdotisa, papisa, chamana, curandera o vendedora de suenos."
From a book on Maria Sabina's poetry and songs:
A shaman and visionary--not a poet in any ordinary sense--María Sabina lived out her life in the Oaxacan mountain village of Huautla de Jiménez, and yet her words, always sung or spoken, have carried far and wide, a principal instance and a powerful reminder of how poetry can arise in a context far removed from literature as such. Seeking cures through language--with the help of Psilocybe mushrooms, said to be the source of language itself--she was, as Henry Munn describes her, "a genius [who] emerges from the soil of the communal, religious-therapeutic folk poetry of a native Mexican campesino people." She may also have been, in the words of the Mexican poet Homero Aridjis, "the greatest visionary poet in twentieth-century Latin America."
These selections include a generous presentation from Sabina's recorded chants and a complete English translation of her oral autobiography, her vida, as written and arranged in her native language by her fellow Mazatec Alvaro Estrada. Accompanying essays and poems include an introduction to "The Life of María Sabina" by Estrada, an early description of a nighttime "mushroom velada" by the ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson, an essay by Henry Munn relating the language of Sabina's chants to those of other Mazatec shamans, and more.
2010 / jvsn
From a book on Maria Sabina's poetry and songs:
A shaman and visionary--not a poet in any ordinary sense--María Sabina lived out her life in the Oaxacan mountain village of Huautla de Jiménez, and yet her words, always sung or spoken, have carried far and wide, a principal instance and a powerful reminder of how poetry can arise in a context far removed from literature as such. Seeking cures through language--with the help of Psilocybe mushrooms, said to be the source of language itself--she was, as Henry Munn describes her, "a genius [who] emerges from the soil of the communal, religious-therapeutic folk poetry of a native Mexican campesino people." She may also have been, in the words of the Mexican poet Homero Aridjis, "the greatest visionary poet in twentieth-century Latin America."
These selections include a generous presentation from Sabina's recorded chants and a complete English translation of her oral autobiography, her vida, as written and arranged in her native language by her fellow Mazatec Alvaro Estrada. Accompanying essays and poems include an introduction to "The Life of María Sabina" by Estrada, an early description of a nighttime "mushroom velada" by the ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson, an essay by Henry Munn relating the language of Sabina's chants to those of other Mazatec shamans, and more.
2010 / jvsn
Physical description
4.75 inches
Original language
Central American Indian (Other)