Inti Garcia-Flores
In his video, Inti shares the journey of cataloguing and restoring the Historias y Memorias Mazatecas Archive, a historical archive of Mazatec culture, highlighting the challenges they have encountered in preserving it and outlining the remaining tasks necessary to accomplish the ultimate goal of this project.
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