Compilation of the background of the Universidad Intercultural Veracruzana about regional arts and their threats in Selvas, Grandes Montañas, Totonacapan and Huasteca.

Abstract

Art is an important part of any culture; manual dexterity is required to build or produce works. These can be individual or collective, permanent or ephemeral. Art expresses itself in a host of activities that manifest an important event in relation to the whole year or seasons of the year. This event is part of a group that forms a culture. In the present work we intend to select, classify and analyze information of recepcionales documents of the Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural as a study methodology, to determine what type of art is presented in the zone of Selvas, Grandes Montañas, Totonacapan and Huasteca, and in what way They are being affected. The types of art reported for the Selvas area were pottery, theater, textile art, raw materials and dyes for textile art, fandango, photography, music and dance. In the Great Mountains area of Tequila, rock and pre Hispanic music, handicraft of wool, loom technique and photography were recorded. In the Totonacapan are the dances related to ritual and worldview. And finally in the Huasteca there were reports of embroidery, music from Huapango, wind band, pottery, basketry and wax. The foregoing shows us that some activities are similar from one area to another, that there is still a diversity of artistic activities, but what is most remarkable and alarming is that the customs and artistic traditions are being lost due to different factors, so this work can be the initiative to reinvigorate the taste and practice of the activities of each area.