I have posted several long messages about the history of CELIAC,
formerly called the Oaxaca Native Literacy Project. If you would like
copies of those postings, please let me know.
russ bernard
(university of florida, on leave 1994-95 at the university of cologne)
BOOKS AVAILABLE FROM CELIAC AND HOW TO ORDER THEM
CELIAC (Centro Editorial en Literatura Indigena, A.C.) is a not-
for-profit, indigenous-language publishing center in Oaxaca,
Mexico. CELIAC's books are published in perfect-bound, paperback
editions and as PC disk files. Most of CELIAC's books cost $30 per
volume. Tiburcio Perez' book of Totonac poetry
(book #1 on the list below) costs $60. It contains 53 color
drawings by the author.
Prices include shipping in the U.S. Canada, and Mexico. For other
countries, add $10 per volume.
Disk versions of CELIAC books are in MS-DOS, WordPerfect 5.1
format. Disks cost $30 each if purchased separately, but are $10
with the purchase of a book.
Proceeds from sales of CELIAC books support indigenous authors and
also support the distribution of books to local schools. Following
is a list of the books now available or in press. (Note: We do not
show special characters, like the barred i or the dieresis, on e-
mail. We do, however, show the Spanish enye as n^.)
1. X'TACHWIN X'TATLIN LI TUTUNAKU (Palabra y Canto de los
Totonacos), by Tiburcio Perez Gonzalez (Jun). Poetry in Totonac and
Spanish. Over 50 original color illustrations by the author.
Publication date: May 1994. Cost: $60.00 USC
2. DILLZAAN NHA' KALHJAGOK'KS (Cuentos y Leyendas en Idioma
Zapoteco de la Sierra Norte; Area Cajonof: Yaganiza, San Mateo,
Xagacia, y Carizal), by Alfredo Rios Belem. In Zapotec. Publication
date: June 1994. Cost: $30.00 USC
3. NA KAA IYO YO CHI NUU CHIKUA'A (La Vida Cotidiana de Jicayan,
Volume I), by Josefa Leonarda Gonzalez Ventura. In Mixtec.
Publication date: March, 1993. Cost: $30.00 USC
4. LA VIDA COTIDIANA DE JICAYAN. (Na Kaa Iyo Yo Chi Nuu Chikua'a
Volume I), by Josefa Leonarda Gonzalez Ventura. In Spanish.
Publication date: March 1994. Cost: $30.00 USC
5. LALA IA TI JUJMI KI TSA KO WI (Asi se Cuenta en el Idioma
Chinanteco de Ojitlan), by Fidel Pereda Ramon and Bartola Morales
Garcia. In Chinantec. Publication date: late 1994.
6. TE'EN NI TUI NUU YO (Asi se Fundo Nuestro Pueblo), by Pablo
Hernandez Hernandez. In Mixtec. Publication date: late 1994.
7. RA NT'EMEE MAYA'MU 'NE MAPAYA (La Religion Tradicional y
Religion Contemporanea), by Jesus Salinas Pedraza. In Nahn^u
(Otomi) and Spanish. Publication date: mid-1994. The English
edition of this book is available in H.R. Bernard and J. Salinas,
Native Ethnography, Sage Publications, 1989. In Spanish and
N^ahn^u, late 1994 or early 1995.
8. RA 'MEDE RA HNINI RA DEXTO (Historia de la Comunidad de El
Dexto), by Jesus Salinas Pedraza. In Nahn^u and Spanish.
Publication date: Early 1995.
9. YELESI'IN CHE BENE' GOLHE JSESHE (Los Conocimientos de los
Ancianos de Yatzachi el Bajo), by Digna Salvador Eugenio. In
Zapotec and Spanish. Publication date: late-1994.
10. TYUSU CHA NAKATYI NUYIVI NUU KASANDO'O (Cuentos que Narra la
Gente de Jamiltepec), by Miguel Lopez Hernandez. In Mixtec and
Spanish. Publication date: late 1994
CELIAC's books may be purchased directly from CELIAC. Contact
Box 1530, Oaxaca, Oax. Mexico 68000, or
CELIAC, Avenida Ejercito Mexicano 1107, Colonia Ampliacion Dolores,
Oaxaca, Oaxaca, 68020 Mexico.
Payment for CELIAC books may be made by international bank draft, or
you may wire funds directly to CELIAC. For details in Spanish,
contact CELIAC on e-mail at CELIAC@laneta.igc.apc.org, or
call Jesus Salinas or Josefa Gonzalez at CELIAC: 011-52-
951-59725 or 59729. For details in English, contact contact H.
Russell Bernard at 904-376-4544 (fax: 904-376-8617), e-mail
UFRUSS@NERVM.NERDC.UFL.EDU
If you wish to sponsor a native author at CELIAC, or help CELIAC
purchase a computer for a village, or underwrite the distribution of
CELIAC'sbooks to village schools, contact Russell Bernard (address
above). These tax-deductible contributions to the project are
handled by the University of Florida Foundation, Inc.
Contact Jesus Salinas or Josefa Gonzalez by phone, mail, or e-mail
(addresses above) if you'd like to visit CELIAC.