La Casa de las Semejanzas
A little celebration with the Melipona bees of Yucatán


This booklet is a memory, a small celebration and the testimony of many conversations and encounters centered around the Melipona bee in Maní, Yucatán.
It invites us to listen to the words of Doña Nebi, meliponicultora and guardian of melipona bees, who poetically tells us about the caring relationship she nurters with the bees that live under her guardianship; to learn more about the Casa de Semejanzas, the work and jobón/beehive-offering of Ariel Guzik that moved from an exhibition space to Maní to be inhabited by the bees themselves; and to think with Atilano Ceballo Loeza, about the necessity to take care of this house that we all inhabit.


It is also a Thank you to the multiple voices, practices and knowledges that have been shared and continue to be shared through this process and the buzzing of the bees.


Thank you to Yazmin Tuz Chab for all translations from Spanish to Mayan.
Thank you to Mariko Lugo and Ricardo Cardona from Capulín Taller Editorial for their wonderful work.

La Casa de las Semejanzas
en español y maya (color)
La Casa de las Semejanzas
en español y maya (blanco/negro)