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Whether you live in Oaxaca or vacation here on a regular basis, if you've begun to integrate into the community, eventually you'll be asked to be a padrino or madrina (godparent) to an ahijado or ahijada (godchild), so you'd better familiarize yourself with "compadrazgo," or co-godparenthood.
Hey Compadre 2007
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Whether you live in Oaxaca or vacation here on a regular basis, if you've begun to integrate into the community, eventually you'll be asked to be a padrino or madrina (godparent) to an ahijado or ahijada (godchild), so you'd better familiarize yourself with "compadrazgo," or co-godparenthood.
Hey Compadre 2007
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If not through blood or marriage, then through compadrazgo (fictive kinship), most people are related one way or another in small Oaxacan towns and villages.
A wedding and christening in rural Oaxaca: The mandate of tradition 2009
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If not through blood or marriage, then through compadrazgo (fictive kinship), most people are related one way or another in small Oaxacan towns and villages.
A wedding and christening in rural Oaxaca: The mandate of tradition 2009
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In terms of the broader societal importance of compadrazgo, the number of kinship ties you have is relatively finite, and usually beyond your control.
Hey Compadre 2007
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In terms of the broader societal importance of compadrazgo, the number of kinship ties you have is relatively finite, and usually beyond your control.
Hey Compadre 2007
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One chooses who will be his or her lifetime compadres, the cornerstone of compadrazgo.
Hey Compadre 2007
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One chooses who will be his or her lifetime compadres, the cornerstone of compadrazgo.
Hey Compadre 2007
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We had been to other weddings here, but this was our first experience with compadrazgo, that formal tie that binds one family with another through help with life's ritual events, from sponsorship at baptism to having the burial cross made.
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We had been to other weddings here, but this was our first experience with compadrazgo, that formal tie that binds one family with another through help with life's ritual events, from sponsorship at baptism to having the burial cross made.
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