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- Pre-Columbian Art, Pre-columbian studies, Arte Precolombino
- by Gökçe Zorba
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- Latin American Studies, Peruvian History, Literatura Latinoamericana, Latin America

Resumen En este artículo presentaremos un corpus iconográfico mochica conformado por vasijas de asa estribo, asa lateral y cántaros en los cuales se destacan en relieve personajes muertos involucrados en una danza. Con una metodología de análisis fundamentada en la convergencia de la semántica visual y la etnoarqueomusicología, abordaremos cuestiones referentes al mundo mochica observables en estas vasijas. Entre ellos, discutiremos aspectos ontológicos de la producción sonora, así como el tema de la muerte y el pasaje entre mundos en la sociedad mochica. Además, suponemos que las variaciones iconográficas entre los distintos subtemas de vasijas encontrados en nuestro análisis pueden indicar una distribución regional de este tema, con una producción especializada de los subtemas en valles específicos.

Columbus had a wealth of information, including maps, that he pursued and then used in order to explore the Atlantic in search of The Indies. He not only used fairly accurate maps, but probably had a guide to lead him to already... more

This is the English draft of a chapter published in Spanish as "Culturas chibchas del litoral caribeño: Explorando las conexiones precolombinas entre Colombia y Costa Rica" in Archaeología del Área Intermedia, edited by Cristóbal Gnecco... more

In Mesoamerican mythology, several spaces bear the name of “Place of Color”. This essay investigates their distinctive features and their function in myths, through the study of Central Mexican colonial sources and of Mixtec pre-Columbian codices. This comparative effort —specially focused on the feat of Quetzalcoatl of Tollan and 8 Venado Garra de Jaguar — shows that besides their relation to color, these mythical places shared common traits, for instance they were associated with stretches of water, as well as with the Sun god and its territory. As about their function, the present work reveals that the Places of Color were spaces in which originated a series of cycles, directly inspired on the archetype of the celestial course of the sun. Finally, this essay confirms the benefit to be obtained from compared mythology in the Mesoamerican context, since the compar- ison of Nahua and Mixtec mythical episodes illuminates some aspects of their content and meaning, which are impossible to comprehend if we keep ourselves confined to the corpus of sources from each of these cultural areas.

- by ELODIE DUPEY
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- Nahuatl, Mesoamerica, Códices Mixtecos, Nahuas

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, in Washington, DC, is an institute of Harvard University dedicated to supporting scholarship internationally in Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and Garden and Landscape Studies through fellowships, meetings, exhibitions, and publications. Located in Georgetown and bequeathed by Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks welcomes scholars to consult its books, images, and objects, and the public to visit its garden, museum, and historic house for lectures and concerts.

- by Jan Ziolkowski
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- Music, Archival Studies, Humanities, Late Antique and Byzantine History

On September 15, 2007, the PCS/DC presented its annual symposium on the ancient cultures of the steamy tropics between the Mesoamerican and Andean cultures. As moderator of the symposium, Dr. John W. Hoopes presented the opening talk that
discussed the region between the southern frontiers of Mesoamerica and the northern frontiers of the Central Andes-often referred to as the "Intermediate Area" -that remains unfamiliar to many specialists. A growing body of multidisciplinary
scholarship from the fields of historical linguistics, human genetics, archaeology, ethnohistory, and sociocultural anthropology offers a new perspective on the cultures that connected southern Mesoamerica with the northern Andes and the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. Hoopes' talk provided an introduction to how scholars are addressing this new paradigm and discussed its implications for Pre-Columbian studies. It also described the region's principal iconographic motifs as they are represented in ceramics, stone sculpture, jade carving, and metallurgy and explained what they reveal about ancient belief systems of the predominantly Chibchan-speaking peoples and their neighbors in Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. Dr. Hoopes received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. He is also a courtesy curator at the Museum of Anthropology at the university. His research interests include the archaeology of Central and South America, Chibchan culture, internet archaeology, cultural evolution, prehistoric trade and exchange, origins of agriculture and sedentism, and prehistoric ceramics.

This is a version of my research on the carved stones at Chavín that was written especially for a religious studies audience, as part of an edited volume exploring new research on religiosity and material culture inspired by 'new materialist' philosophers. The rest of the book is great -- good overview by prominent religious studies scholar Sally Promey, and fascinating case studies, mostly from Europe and Euro-America.

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- Animal Symbolism, Mesoamerican Religion, Color symbolism, Mesoamerican Studies

PowerPoint slides for a presentation in the symposium, “Tras una herencia cultural milenaria: contribuciones de Richard Cooke a la arqueología del Área Istmo-Colombiana,” XI Congreso de la Red Centroamericana de Antropología, Universidad... more

Early 20th-century exhibits of non-Western objects are
today often viewed through the prism of Modernist Primitivism,
that is, the avant-garde desire for unmediated
confrontation with these objects’ aesthetic form or spiritual
force. This has been the usual interpretation of an exhibition
of pre-Columbian pieces held in Paris in 1928. A study
of archival materials and display practices related to this
event, and to a sister show staged several months later in
Toledo, Ohio, reveals that the organizing anthropologists
and curators were pursuing quite different aims. These
case studies provide rich examples of the conceptual shifts
that occurred between the initial ‘‘discovery’’ of non-Western
art by avant-garde artists and its later institutional
recognition. Focusing particularly on the Toledo installation,
thus far entirely neglected by scholars, this
article further supports the call to broaden the story
of the early transatlantic re-evaluation of non-Western art
beyond the Paris–New York continuum.

- by SARAH FEE
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- Exhibition History, Primitivism, Pre-columbian studies, Toledo Museum of Art

Die Azteken sind vor allem für ihre blutigen Rituale bekannt. Die Berichte der spanischen Konquistadoren erzählen von barbarischen Sitten, die vor der Eroberung in Mexiko häufig stattgefunden haben sollen. Wo liegt die Wahrheit? Haben die Azteken tatsächlich Menschen geopfert? Falls ja, zu welchem Zweck? Der Vortrag ist der Bedeutung des Menschenopfers im präkolumbischen Wertesystem gewidmet.

- by Izabela Wilkosz
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- Anthropology, Ritual, Aztecs, Human sacrifice (Anthropology Of Religion)
- by ELODIE DUPEY
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- Art, Nahuatl, Mesoamerica, Trace