Ithaca College

An article written by Mara Alper, associate professor in the Department of Television-Radio, about the Huichol (WE-chol) tribe appears in Inside Mexico, a publication aimed at foreigners living in Mexico.

The article chronicles her experience attending a Huichol ceremony in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in central Mexico. It is available online in the September "Learning Issue" on pages 10-11.

Alper is making a documentary about the tribe, who are descents of the Aztecs with traditions intact over thousands of years. The first part of the documentary focus on their elaborate art and is called "Visions of the Huichol." It will be available through the IC Library shortly.

IC alum Shauna Leff (TVR '99) worked on the documentary, along with student Emiliano Acevedo '09 and Annette Levine, assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.