The jipitecas (sometimes called "xipitecas") were the
Mexican hippies of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The term was coined by scholar
Enrique Marroquin in the late 1960s and used widely in the media afterwards. Other terms for referring Mexican hippies were "macizos" and "onderos", since they were part of the broader
counterculture
A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.Eric Donald Hirsch. ''The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy''. Hou ...
movement known as "
La Onda" (The Wave).
See also
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Festival Avándaro
References
External links
Refried Elvis: The rise of the Mexican counterculture Available as e-book for fair use from the
University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish scholarly and scientific works by facult ...
website.
Piedra Rodante The iconic La Onda magazine, available in PDF for fair use by the
Stony Brook University.
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Hippie movement