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1. About\u00a0Caseidyne\u00ebn Sa\u00ebn<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\r\nCaseidyne\u00ebn Sa\u00ebn<\/em> is a volume of open access, pedagogical resources centered on an archival corpus of Valley Zapotec-language materials created during the Mexican Colonial period. It is the product of an active, ongoing collaboration involving Zapotec and non-Native scholars as well as Zapotec community members. Zapotec people (both in the United States and Mexico) were foundational in the development of these materials, as co-editors of the volume, and as authors of chapters. Caseidyne\u00ebn Sa\u00ebn<\/em> is made freely available via Pressbooks through the Ticha Project (Lillehaugen et al. 2016, Broadwell et al. 2020) and is accessible directly from the Ticha webpage<\/a>.\r\n\r\nZapotec languages are spoken in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico and by diaspora communities throughout Mexico and the US, especially in the greater Los Angeles area. Zapotec speakers face discrimination in Mexico and Zapotec language and knowledge is given little or no place in Mexican public education, even where the majority of the population is Zapotec. Today, fewer and fewer children are learning Zapotec.\r\n\r\nCaseidyne\u00ebn Sa\u00ebn brings a corpus of endangered language texts to learners across the English and Spanish reading world and does so in a way that celebrates Zapotec knowledge, practices, and continued fight for survival and recognition. Caseidyne\u00ebn Sa\u00ebn<\/em> elucidates this complicated corpus of colonial texts as a resource for contemporary Zapotec communities and the general public. These pedagogical materials also have a dual role of advocacy that is deeply intertwined in their creation, content, and use. The chapters of Caseidyne\u00ebn Sa\u00ebn<\/em> highlight the linguistic, historical, and cultural value of these texts, and are intended to promote research into Zapotec culture, language, and history by introducing newcomers to the rich corpus of Zapotec-language archival materials.\r\n

2. A Note on Collaboration and Authorship\r\n<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n
Authors and editors<\/h5>\r\nThe work presented here and in the Spanish language edition<\/a> of this volume represents the communal work of at least 30 individuals. This of course is difficult to represent in typical authorship structures. While we list seven editors of this volume and two primary authors of the chapters, all of the work benefited from many hands and many hearts.\r\n\r\nThe editors read and gave feedback on every chapter multiple times over the course of the development, contributed to grant writing, and played significant managerial roles in the development of these resources. Short biographies of the editors can be found in the following pages. The editors are listed using the following guide: first the three Zapotec editors are listed in alphabetical order, then the other editors are listed in alphabetical order, with Lillehaugen, as project director, listed last; the volume can be cited as:\r\n

Flores-Marcial, X\u00f3chitl, Mois\u00e9s Garc\u00eda Guzm\u00e1n, Felipe H. Lopez, George Aaron Broadwell, Alejandra Dubcovsky, May Helena Plumb, Mike Zarafonetis, and Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, (eds.). 2021. Caseidyne\u00ebn Sa\u00ebn \u2013 Learning Together: Colonial Valley Zapotec Teaching Materials.\u00a0<\/em>Online: https:\/\/ds-archive.haverford.edu\/ticha-resources\/modules\/<\/a>.<\/p>\r\nPrimary authors are listed for each chapter. This author was the primary person (or people) responsible for envisioning, drafting, and revising the chapter. Each chapter can be cited individually, such as:\r\n

Plumb, May Helena. 2021. Ticha. In Caseidyne\u00ebn Sa\u00ebn \u2013 Learning Together: Colonial Valley Zapotec Teaching Materials, <\/em>ed. by Flores-Marcial et al. Online: https:\/\/ds-archive.haverford.edu\/ticha-resources\/modules\/chapter\/ticha-pedagogical-unit-1-introduction-to-the-ticha-project\/<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Additional Zapotec collaborators<\/h5>\r\nIn addition to the Zapotec authors and editors of this volume, there were over 26 <\/span>Zapotec individuals who directly contributed to the development, testing, and revision of these resources.\u00a0 They are members of Zapotec communities living in both Oaxaca and in the diaspora, including Oaxacalifornia. These individuals are academics, students, communal land owners, teachers, artists, musicians, local leaders, and activists. Many had extended contributions to this work, for example though participating in one of the Conversatorios<\/em>, through which the chapters were reviewed in detail and discussed in community; these individuals are, in alphabetical order:\r\n