Purepecha

Purepechas
INTRODUCTION
CURRENT STATUS: Sinaloa, Guanajuato, Michoacan, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Guerrero.
CULTURE AREA: Oasisamérica.
PERIOD: 900-1521 Postclassic D.C.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:Between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Purepecha empire, with its capital at Tzintzuntzan, was a first-rate power Mesoamerican that resisted the thrust of the Mexica empire. Their culturalinfluence covering the southern part of the state of Guanajuato, Michoacán statewide and northern Guerrero state to what is now the state of Mexico. His military and economic success was due in partto the Purepecha were skilled workers in metals like gold, copper and bronce.2 This factor certainly helped to maintain independence of the Aztecs. The ancients were Purepecha purépecha exclusivespeakers, a language isolate unrelated to any other historically demonstrated in the region.
RELIGION: The Tarascan religion was polytheistic, and had among the rites of human sacrifice, like the Aztecs.Their chief god was Curicaveri, the god who opposed chichimecas deity naranjan agricultural peoples, ie Xaratanga. Curicaveri is the god of fire, and also personified the sun. Xaratanga was the deitythat makes growth and reproduction of beings, is represented by the moon, and as such is Curicaveri's wife, was also goddess of sustenance, and received the dead in his arms. Another important goddesswas curivaperi, the "creative" was the mother of the gods and of all that exists, and is also regarded as a goddess of rain.
ORGANIZATION: It is common for extended family organization p'urhé.Usually housing is adapted to this type of organization because units are built several rooms that share a courtyard and a same site. Regularly the couple will live in the house of the parents of thebridegroom. Within the family inheritance is divided among all the children equally, although it is rare for women to sell his share to his brothers, since go to live in-laws house. Communities are...