The jipitecas (sometimes called "xipitecas") were the
Mexican hippies
A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to different countries around ...
of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The term was coined by scholar
Enrique Marroquin
Enrique Marroquín (born January 30, 1939 Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican liberal Catholic priest, writer and scholar, considered to be one of the key figures of the Mexican counterculture movement of '' La Onda'' (The Wave) and a strong suppo ...
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
''La Onda'' (The Wave) was a multidisciplinary artistic movement created in Mexico by artists and intellectuals as part of the worldwide waves of the counterculture of the 1960s and the avant-garde. Pejoratively called as ''Literatura de 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
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website.
Piedra Rodante The iconic La Onda magazine, available in PDF for fair use by the
Stony Brook University
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.
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Hippie movement