Outline Daily Schedule:
Oaxaca: Crossroads of a Continent: July 1 - August 1, 2007
Sunday
July 1
Participants arrive in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Informal greetings and orientation.
Monday
July 2
Morning seminar: Selma Holo (Museum Studies, University of Southern California and Director of USC Fisher Gallery): "Oaxaca as a Cultural Crossroads."
Reading: Selma Holo, Oaxaca at the Crossroads (Smithsonian Books, 2004): Introduction and chaps. 1, 2 and 6.
John Chance, Race and Class in Colonial Oaxaca (1978): selections
Afternoon: orientation walking tour of colonial Oaxaca.
Evening: reception and welcome dinner hosted by CCHA.
Tuesday
July 3
Morning seminar: Selma Holo: "Oaxaca as a Cultural Crossroads," cont'd.
Reading: Selma Holo, Oaxaca at the Crossroads (Smithsonian Books, 2004): chap. 7.
Wednesday
July 4
Morning seminar: Marcus
Winter (Arqueólogo, Centro
INAH Oaxaca): 1. Oaxaca in Mesoamerica. 2. Hunter-gatherers,
plant domestication, and the origins of village life; ~12,000-500 BC.
3. Early urbanism in Oaxaca: Monte Albán´s origins and
early trajectory; ~500 BC-AD 200.
Reading:
Kent V. Flannery, Anne
V. T. Kirkby, Michael J. Kirkby y Aubrey W. Williams,
"Farming
systems and political growth in Ancient Oaxaca." Science 158 (1967): 445-454.
Kent V. Flannery, "Archaeological
Systems Theory and Early Mesoamerica," Anthropological Archaeology
in the Americas.
(Washington, D. C.: The Anthropological Society of Washington, 1968).
Arthur A. Joyce, "The Founding of Monte Albán: Sacred Propositions and Social Practices," Agency in Archaeology, ed. Marci-Anne Dobres and John E. Robb (London and New York: Routledge, 2000): pp. 71-91.
Marcus Winter, "Monte Albán." Paper presented at the sixth meeting of the Mesoamerican Urbanism Project, Pennsylvania State University, August 2006. Pp. 20-24.
Roberto González, Zapotec Science/ Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca (Austin: University of Texas, 2001): chaps. 4 and 5
| Thursday July 5 Morning
seminar: Marcus Winter:
1. Monte Albán and Teotihuacan:
AD 200-500 2.
Urban resurgence and collapse: Monte Albán and other cases;
AD 500-800. 3.
Oaxaca´s Postclassic cacicazgos; AD 800-1521
Reading: Winter, Marcus, "Monte Alban and Teotihuacan," in Rutas de intercambio en Mesoamerica: III Coloquio Bosch-Gimpera, Ed. Evelyn Childs Rattray (Mexico, D.F.: UNAM,1998): pp.153-184. Michael Lind and Javier Urcid, "The Lords
of Lambityeco and Their Nearest Neighbors," Notas Mesoamericanas 9: (Cholula Universidad de las Américas, 1983): 78-111. Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery, Zapotec Civilization (Thames and Hudson, 1996): chaps. 7- 8, 10- 12. The Cloud People, ed. Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus (Academic Press, 1983): Topics 16, 19, 20, 21, 23, 29 and 41.
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Friday
July 6
Full day study visit with Marcus Winter to San José Mogote, Cuilapan and Zaachila
Reading: Byron Hamann, "Weaving and the Iconography
of Prestige: The Royal Gender Symbolism of Lord 5 Flower´s/Lady
4 Rabbit´s Family," In Women in Prehistory: North America
and Mesoamerica, Ed.
Cheryl Claassen and Rosemary A. Joyce Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania,
1997): 153-172.
The Cloud People, ed. Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus (Academic Press, 1983): Topics 13, 14, 15.
Selma Holo, Oaxaca at the Crossroads (Smithsonian Books, 2004): chap. 1.
Saturday
July 7
Full day study visit to Monte Albán with Marcus Winter.
Reading: Damon E. Peeler and Marcus Winter, "Building J at Monte Albán: A Correction and Reassessment of the Astronomical Hypothesis," Latin American Antiquity, 6.4 (1995): 362-369.
Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery, Zapotec Civilization (Thames and Hudson, 1996): chap. 15.
The Cloud People, ed. Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus (Academic Press, 1983): Topics 42, 43, 55.
Nelly M. Robles, "The Monte Albán Management Plan," The SAA Archaeological Record (September 2005): 20-22.
Sunday
July 8
Morning: study visit with Marcus Winter to Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca (formerly Oaxaca Regional Museum), including the exhibition of Tomb 7 artifacts.
Afternoon: Alejandro Avila (Director): lecture and tour of the Ethnobotanical Museum.
Reading: Alfonso Caso, "Monte Albán: Richest Archaeological Find in America," National Geographic (October 1932): 487- 512.
Sharisse D, McCafferty and Geoffrey G. McCafferty, "Engendering
Tomb 7 at Monte Albán: Respinning an Old Yarn." Current
Anthropology, 35.2
(1994): 143-166.
Selma Holo, Oaxaca at the Crossroads (Smithsonian Books, 2004): chap. 3.
Monday
July 9
Study visit with Marcus
Winter to Mitla and other sites (possibly including Dainzú,
Lambityeco and Yagul)
Reading: John M.
D. Pohl, "The Lintel
Paintings of Mitla and the Function of the Mitla Palaces," in Mesoamerican
Architecture as a Cultural Symbol, Ed. Jeff Karl Kowalski (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999): 177-197.
The Cloud People, ed. Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus (Academic Press, 1983): Topics 60, 79, 80, 87 & 88.
Tuesday
July 10
Morning seminar: Ben Feinberg (Anthropology, Warren Wilson College): "The Devil's Book of Culture"
Reading: Feinberg, Benjamin. The Devil's Book of Culture: History,
Mushrooms, and Caves in Southern Mexico. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 2003.
Wednesday July 11
Morning seminar: Ben Feinberg: "In the Matter of María Sabina"
Reading: Estrada, Alvaro. "The Life." In, Rothenberg, Jerome,
ed. María Sabina: Selections. Berkeley: University of California Press,
2003. Pp. 1-79.
Munn, Henry. "The Uniqueness of María Sabina." In, Rothenberg, Jerome,ed. María Sabina: Selections. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 140-163.
Thursday
July 12
Morning seminar: John M. D. Pohl (Art History, Princeton University and Curator, Princeton Art Museum): "Origins of Mesoamerican Writing; Zapotec and Mixtec Writing."
Reading: Mary Elizabeth Smith, Picture Writing From Ancient Southern Mexico (University of Oklahoma, 1973): chaps. 2-4.
Elizabeth Hill Bonne, Stories in Red and Black (University of Texas Press, 2000): chaps. 4 & 5.
Alfonso Caso, "Mixtec Writing and Calendar," Handbook of Middle American Indians 2.3 (University of Texas Press, 1965): 948- 961.
Friday
July 13
Morning Seminar: John M. D. Pohl: "Mixtec Codices and the Mixteca/Puebla Style; focus on the Codex Nuttall."
Afternoon seminar: John Monaghan (Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago): "Exchange, Sacrifice and Revelation in Mixtec Sociality."
Reading: The Codex Nuttall, ed. Zelia Nuttall (Dover Publications, 1975).
John Pohl, "Mexican Codices, Maps and Lienzos as Social Contracts," in Writing Without Words, ed. Elizabeth Hill Bonne and Walter Mignolo (Duke University Press, 1994): 137- 60.
John Monaghan, "The Text in the Body, the Body in the Text: the Embodied Sign in Mixtec Writing," in Writing Without Words, ed. Elizabeth Hill Bonne and Walter Mignolo (Duke University Press, 1994): 87- 101.
The Cloud People, ed. Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus (Academic Press, 1983): Topics 71, 72, 74, 76.
Saturday
July 14, Sunday July 15, Monday
July 16
"In the Land of 8-Deer": three-day bus excursion to the Mixteca Alta region with John M. D. Pohl and John Monaghan. Focus on Mixtec archaeological sites and contemporary Mixtec society and culture. Itinerary to include Yanhuitlan, Teposcolula,, Huamelulpan, S. Maria Cuquila and possibly Coixtlahuaca.
and two nights in Tlaxiaco (July 14 & 15). Return to Oaxaca Monday July 16.
Reading: Bruce Byland and John Pohl, In the Realm of 8 Deer (University of Oklahoma Press, 1994): chaps. 1 and 4.
John Monaghan, The Covenants with Earth and Rain (University of Oklahoma Press, 1995): chaps. 1-7, and 11.
Kevin Terraciano, The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca (2003): selections.
Ronald Spores, The Mixtecs in Ancient and Colonial Oaxaca. (1984): selections.
Tuesday July 17
Morning seminar: John M. D. Pohl and John Monaghan: "Overview of the Mixteca Alta experience: an interactive roundtable."
Reading: The Cloud People, ed. Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus (Academic Press, 1983): Topics 95- 99.
Wednesday July 18 -- free day. Independent reading.
Thursday
July 19
Morning seminar: Lynn Stephen (Anthropology, University of Oregon): "Zapotec Women: focus on Teotitlán and Zapotec weaving."
Reading: Lynn Stephen, Zapotec Women (University of Texas Press, 1991): chaps. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 11
Friday
July 20
Full day study visit with Lynn Stephen to the towns of Teotitlán and Tlacochahuaya.
Reading: Lynn Stephen, Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca (Durham: Duke University Press. 2005): chap 4.
Bruce Selcraig, "Dream Weavers," Smithsonian (November 2003): 72- 78.
Saturday July 21
Study
visits with Lynn Stephen to San
Bartolo de Coyotepec, Cuilapán and Zaachila.
Reading: Selma Holo, Oaxaca at the Crossroads (Smithsonian Books, 2004): chap. 5.
The Cloud People, ed. Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus (Academic Press, 1983): Topic 87.
Sunday July 22 -- free day Independent reading.
Monday
July 23
Morning seminar: Howard Campbell (Anthroplogy, University of Texas, El Paso): "Zapotec cultural revitalization in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; focus on Juchitán."
Reading: Howard Campbell, Zapotec Renaissance (University of New Mexico, 1994): chaps. 1- 3.
Beverly Chiñas, The Isthmus Zapotecs (Holt, Rinehart, 1973): chaps. 5, 6 and 8.
Laura Nader, Harmony Ideology (Stanford Univ. Press, 1990): chaps. 1,2, 14 & 15.
Tuesday
July 24, Wednesday July 25, Thursday July 26
"Zapotec Renaissance": three-day bus excursion to the Zapotec cultural region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the cultural centerJuchitán, with Howard Campbell. Seminars and roundtables with local Zapotec writers: Manuel Matus, Victor de la Cruz, Natalia Toledo. Itinerary includes three nights in Juchitán (July 24, 25 & 26.). Return to Oaxaca Thursday July 26.
Reading: Beverly Chiñas, La Zandunga (Waveland Press, 1993): selections.
Howard Campbell, Zapotec Renaissance (University of New Mexico, 1994): chaps. 4 and 5.
Zapotec Struggles, ed. Howard Campbell, et al. (Smithsonian Institution
Press, 1993): selections, including
Macario Matus and Victor de la Cr
Morning seminar: Howard Campbell: "Overview of the Ishthmus experience."
Reading: Howard Campbell, Zapotec Renaissance (Univ of New Mexico, 1994): chap. 8.
Saturday
July 28 – free
day. Independent reading.
Sunday July 29 -- free day. Independent readin
Monday
July 30
Morning seminar: Jeffrey Cohen (Anthropology, Ohio State University: "Cooperation and Community in Santa Ana del Valle."
Afternoon: visit to town of Santa Ana del
Valle.
Reading: Jeffrey Cohen, Cooperation and Community/ Economy and Society in Oaxaca (Univ of Texas, 1999): Introduction and chaps. 2, 3 and 4.
Carol Nagengast and Michael Kearney, "Mixtec Ethnicity," in Crossing Currents: Continuity and Change in Latin America, ed. Michael Whiteford and Scott Whiteford (Prentice Hall, 1998): 453-73.
Michael
Kearney, Mixtec Migrants in California Agriculture: A New Cycle of
Poverty (California
Institute for Rural Studies, 1993). Selections.
Tuesday
July 31
Morning seminar: Jeffrey Cohen: "OaxaCalifornia: trans-border lives and the Oaxaqueño diaspora."
Reading: Cohen, Jeffrey H. The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico (Austin: University
of Texas Press, 2004): Chapter 1 "Studying Migration in Oaxaca's
Central Valleys pp. 1-29; Chapter 4 "Migration, Socioeconomic
Change, and Development" pp. 99-123.
Lynn Stephen, Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacan Migrants in Mexico and the U.S. (Durham: Duke University Press. In Press, fall 2006): selections.
Afternoon: Project Directors' roundtable: assessment and evaluation; curricular and research implications of the Institute.
Evening: Farewell dinner hosted by CCHA
Wednesday
August 1
Day of departure.
