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Doña Julia Julieta Casimiro

By Jesuita Natalia Pineda Casimiro — 2007

The following is a version of an interview I held over several days in September 2006 with my mother, Doña Julia Julieta Casimiro, one of the most distinguished representatives of the traditions of the thousand-year-old Mazatec culture, which is centered in the northern mountains of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.

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