On-Site in Mexico City, Arizona and New Mexico, June 17- July 23, 2012

Daily Schedule with Assigned Readings and Text List

Mesoamerica and the Southwest: A New History for an Ancient Land

On-Site in Mexico City, Arizona and New Mexico, June 17- July 23, 2012

Note: Morning seminars meet 9 a.m. to noon, unless otherwise announced. Seminar topics and key reading assignments are listed for each day. Key to Reading Lists: [R] = Institute e-Readers;  [T] = Required Text.

                     

Sun June 17   

Arrival of Institute participants in Mexico City, Lodging at Hotel Majestic (in the historic city center adjacent to the Zocalo, and across from the Aztec Templo Mayor).

Evening reception hosted by CCHA at the hotel.

Note: seminar sessions in Mexico City will be at La Universidad del Claustro Sor Juana; bus pick-ups for field trips will be at the Hotel Majestic.

           

UNIT ONE: GREATER MESOAMERICA  (June 18- June 28)


 

Mon June 18

Seminar: John Pohl (UCLA): Migration Narratives and dynastic Histories of the Mixtec and Aztec

 

Reading:

John Pohl, "Ritual Ideology and Commerce in the Southern Mexican Highlands."  In: The Postclassic Mesoamerican World, edited by Michael Smith and Frances Berdan (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003): pp. 172-177.

John Pohl, "Ritual and Iconographic Variability In Mixteca Puebla Polychrome Pottery."  In: The Postclassic Mesoamerican World, edited by Michael Smith and Frances Berdan. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003): pp. 201-206.

John Pohl, "Royal Marriage and Confederacy Building among the Eastern Nahuas, Mixtecs, and Zapotecs". In: The Postclassic Mesoamerican World. Edited by Michael Smith and Frances Berdan. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003): pp.  243-248.

 

Tues June 19

Seminar: John Pohl: Origin, Migration and collective history narratives of Mesoamerica and the Southwest      

 

Reading:

John Pohl, "Chichimecatlalli: Strategies for Cultural and Commercial Exchange between Mexico and the American Southwest 1100-1521."   In: The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland, edited by Virginia Fields and Victor Zamudio Taylor  (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001): pp. 86-101.

John Pohl, "Creation Stories, Hero Cults, and Alliance Building: Postclassic Confederacies of Central and Southern Mexico from A.D. 1150-1458."  In: The Postclassic Mesoamerican World, edited by Michael Smith and Frances Berdan (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003): pp. 61-66.

 

Wed June 20

Seminar: Karl Taube (UC Riverside): Comparative Iconography of Mesoamerica and the Southwest

Karl Taube, "Lightning Celts and Corn Fetishes: The Formative Olmec and the Development of Maize Symbolism in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest." In Olmec Art and Archaeology: Social Complexity in the Formative Period, ed. John E. Clark and Mary Pye (Studies in the History of Art, vol. 58. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2000): , 297-337.

 Karl Taube, "The Breath of Life: The Symbolism of Wind in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest." In The Road to Aztlan: Art From a Mythic Homeland, ed. Virginia M. Fields and Victor Zamudio-Taylor (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2001): 102-23.

 Karl Taube, "Gateways to Another World: The Symbolism of Flowers in Mesoamerica and theAmerican Southwest." In, Painting the Cosmos:  Metaphor and Worldview in Images from the Southwest Pueblos and Mexico, ed. Kelley Hays-Gilpin and Polly Schaafsma, Flagstaff: Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 6.7 (2010): 73-120.    

 Schaafsma, Polly and Karl Taube, "Bringing the Rain: An Ideology of Rain Making in the Pueblo Southwest and Mesoamerica." In A Pre-Columbian World: Searching for a Unitary Vision of Ancient America, ed. Jeffrey Quilter and Mary Miller, Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2006): pp. 231-85.

 

 

Thurs June 21

Full day study visit to the Museum of Anthropology with John Pohl and Karl Taube

Reading:

Karl Taube, “Aztec Mythology,” in Aztec and Maya Myths (British Museum/ Univ of Texas, 1999). [R]

 

Davíd Carrasco, "Toward the Splendid City: Knowing the Worlds of Moctezuma,” in Moctezuma’s Mexico/ Visions of the Aztec World, Revised Edition, ed. Davíd Carrasco and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (Univ of Colorado, 2003). [T]

 

Davíd Carrasco: City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization (Beacon Press, 1999, 2001): chap. 1 [R]

 

Fri June 22

Full day study trip to Teotihuacan with John Pohl and Karl Taube: "Urban Design and Cosmovision at Teotihuacan: Its Antecedents in Preclassic Urban Centers and its Influence on Postclassic Cities"

 

Reading:

Karl Taube, “The Teotihuacan Cave of Origin: the Iconography and Architecture of Emergence Mythology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest,” RES 12 (Autumn 1986): 51-82. [R]

 

Saburo Sugiyama, "Teotihuacan as an Origin for Postclassic Feathered Serpent Symbolism," in Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage: From Teotihuacan to the Aztecs, ed. by Davíd Carrasco, Lindsay Jones, and Scott Sessions (University Press of Colorado, 2000): 117-144. [T]

 

Johanna Broda," Calendrics and Ritual Landscape at Teotihuacan: Themes of Continuity in Mesoamerican "Cosmovision," in Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage: From Teotihuacan to the Aztecs, ed. by Davíd Carrasco, Lindsay Jones, and Scott Sessions (University Press of Colorado, 2000): 397-432. [T]

 

Doris Heyden, "From Teotihuacan to Tenochtitlan: City Planning, Caves, and Streams of Red and Blue Waters"in Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage: From Teotihuacan to the Aztecs, ed. by Davíd Carrasco, Lindsay Jones, and Scott Sessions (University Press of Colorado, 2000): 165-184. [T]

 

Esther Pasztory, Teotihuacan/ An Experiment in Living (Univ of Oklahoma, 1997): Recommended text.

 

Sat June 23

Day free in Mexico City for individual pursuits.

 

Sun June 24

Study visit to Templo Mayor site and Museum led by curatorial staff; late afternoon visits by bus to Aztec sites in Mexico City districts: Tlatelolco, Tenayuca and Sta. Cecelia Atitlan.

 

Reading:

Alfredo López Austin, The Human Body and Ideology/ Concepts of the Ancient Nahuas. Tr. Montellano & Montellano (Univ of Utah, 1988), vol. I, chap. 2: “World View.” [R]

 

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, “Aztec History and Cosmovision,” in Moctezuma’s Mexico/ Visions of the Aztec World, ed. Davíd Carrasco and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (Univ of Colorado, 2003). [T]

 

Elizabeth Hil Boone, “Glorious Imperium: Understanding Land and Community in Moctezuma’s Mexico,” in Moctezuma’s Mexico/ Visions of the Aztec World, Revised

            Edition, ed. Davíd Carrasco and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (Univ of Colorado, 2003). [T]

 

                       

Mon June 25  

Seminar:  Eloise Quiñones Keber (Baruch College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York): The Sahaguntine project and 16th-century accounts of religion and ritual in Aztec society

Readings: 

Alfredo López Austin,”Cosmovision, Religion and the Calendar of the Aztecs,”in Aztecs, ed. Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Felipe Solís Olguin (Royal Academy of Arts, 2002): 30-37.  [See also Alfredo López Austin, “World View” reading for June 23.]

Eloise Quiñones Keber, “Representing Aztec Ritual in the Work of Sahagún, in Representing Aztec Ritual: Performance, Text, and Image in the Work of Sahagún, ed. Eloise Quiñones Keber (University Press of Colorado, 2002): 3- 19.

H.B. Nicholson, “Representing the Veintena Ceremonies in the Primeros Memoriales,” in Representing Aztec Ritual: 63-106.

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, ”Sahagún and the Ceremonial Precinct of Tenochtitlan: Ritual and Place,” in Representing Aztec Ritual: 43-61.

 

Tues June 26

Seminar: Eloise Quiñones Keber:  Representing religion and ritual in Aztec art

Reading:

 

El Libro del Ciuacoatl [Codex Borbonicus], ed. Ferdinand Anders, Maarten Jansen, Luis Reyes García, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1991).  View facsimile of painted manuscript.

Serge Gruzinski, “Secrets of an Outlawed Past,” in Painting the Conquest, 56-101 (Flammarion, 1992).

Inga Clendinnen,”Ritual: The World Transformed, the World Revealed,” in Aztecs, 236-263 (Cambridge UP, 1991): 236- 263.

David Carrasco, “The New Fire Ceremony and the Binding of the Years: Tenochtitlan’s Fearful Symmetry,” in City of Sacrifice (Beacon Press, 1999): 88- 114.

 

Wed June 27

Seminar: Alan Sandstrom (Indiana University-Purdue): Continuities in Nahua culture and identity

                       

Reading:

 

Alan R. Sandstrom, Alan R. "Culture Summary: Nahua" [online document available through eHRAF World Cultures database license; indexing notes by Teferi Abate Adem]. New Haven, Conn.: Human Relations Area Files, 2010.

 

Alan R. Sandstrom. "What Happened to the Aztec Gods after the Conquest?" 2010. [Essay posted on Mexicolore Web site (U.K.), available at http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/index.php?one=azt&two=god&id=426&typ=reg.]

 

Thurs June 28

Seminar: Alan Sandstrom: Contemporary Nahua culture and identity.

 

Reading:

 

Alan R. Sandstrom. "Nahua Blood Sacrifice and Pilgrimage to the Sacred Mountain Postectli, June, 2001." Final report + 23 color photos. Contingency grant award #01001 by Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI), 2001. [Available at http://www.famsi.org/reports/01001/index.html]

 

Alan R. Sandstrom. "The Weeping Baby and the Nahua Corn Spirit: The Human Body as Key Symbol in the Huasteca Veracruzana, Mexico." In Mesoamerican Figurines: Small-Scale Indices of Large-Scale Social Phenomena, Ed. Christina T. Halperin, Katherine A. Faust, Rhonda Taube, and Aurore Giguet (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009): pp. 261-296.

                       

Alan R. Sandstrom, Alan. Corn is Our Blood/ Culture and Ethnic Identity in a Contemporary Aztec Indian Village. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991: Chaps. 6 & 7. [T]

 

Fri June 29

Group departs Mexico; flight Mexico city to Phoenix, Arizona.

Met by coach for visit to Pueblo Grande site and Museum; continue on to flagstaff; check-in to facilities at University of Northern Arizona.

 

UNIT TWO: CULTURAL CROSS-CURRENTS IN THE SOUTHWEST (June 30- July 22)

 

 

Sat  June 30

Seminar: Kelley Hays-Gilpin and Ramson Lomatewama (University of Northern Arizona)): Connections between Mesoamerica and Hopi material culture and emergence and migration narratives

 

Reading:

 

Hays-Gilpin, Kelley, and Jane H. Hill, "The Flower World in Material Culture: An Iconographic Complex in the Southwest and Mesoamerica," Journal of Anthropological Research 55 (1999): 1-37.

 

Laurie D. Webster, Kelley Hays-Gilpin, and Polly Schaafsma, "A New Look at Tie-Dye and the Dot-in-square Motif in the Prehispanic Southwest, with Laurie D. Webster and Polly Schaafsma." Kiva 71.3 (2006): 317-348.

 

"We Are Here: Pueblo Painting and Place." Plateau 2.2 (Museum of Northern Arizona, 2005-2006).

 

"Murals and Metaphors," Plateau 3.1 (Museum of Northern Arizona, 2006).

 

Sun July 1

Study visit to the Hopi mesas, escorted by Kelley Hays-Gilpin and Ramson Lomatewa

 

Reading:         

 

Hays-Gilpin, Kelley A. "All Roads Lead to Hopi." In Las Vías del Noroeste III: Propuesta para una Perspectiva Sistémica e Interdisciplinaria, edited by C. Bonfiglioli, A. Gutiérrez, M. Hers, and M. E. Olavarría, (Intituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Autónoma de México, México D.F., 2009): pp. 65-82.

 

Wall, Dennis, and Virgil Masayesva, "People of the Corn: Teachings in Hopi Traditional Agriculture, Spirituality, and Sustainability," American Indian Quarterly 28.3-4 (2004): 435-453.

 

Peter Whitely, “The End of Anthropology (at Hopi)?” Journal of the Southwest 35 (Summer 1993): 125-57. [R]

 

Raíces Comunes/Common Roots. Report on the Third Vías del Noroeste/ Pathways of the Northwest Conference in 2006 at NAU, 2007. http://www4.nau.edu/commonroots/.

 

Mon July 2     

Visit to Hopi-related Grand Canyon sites, escorted by Kelley Hays-Gilpin and Ramson Lomatewa     

           

Reading:

 

Kuwanwisiwma, Leigh J., and T. J. Ferguson, "Ang Kuktota: Hopi Ancestral Sites and Cultural Landscapes," Expedition 46.2 (2004): 24-29.

 

Tues July 3

Travel day: bus from Flagstaff to Santa Fe.

Check in to facilities at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.

 

Wed July 4     

Seminar: Stephen Lekson (University of Colorado at Boulder): Critical review of the archaeologies and the histories of the Ancient Southwest

Reading:

 

Stephen H. Lekson, A History of the Ancient Southwest (Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 2008): chaps. 1 and 8. [T]

 

Th July 5

Seminar: Stephen Lekson: Ancient Southwest histories: AD 900 to AD 1300.

Reading:

Stephen H. Lekson, A History of the Ancient Southwest (Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 2008): chaps. 5 and 6. [T]

           

Stephen Lekson, “Landscape and Polity: the Interplay of Land, History, and Power in the Ancient Southwest,” in The Road to Aztlan/ Art From a Mythic Homeland, ed. Virginia Fields and Victor Zamudio-Taylor  (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001): 212-29. [R]

           

Fri July 6

Seminar: Kent Reilly (Texas State University, San Marcos): Mesoamerican and Puebloan Iconography

 

Reading:

Polly Schaafsma, ed. Kachinas in the Pueblo World (Univ of Albuquerque, 1994): “Introduction.” [R]

 

M. Jane Young, “The Interconnections Between Western Puebloan and Mesoamerican Ideology/Cosmology,” in Kachinas in the Pueblo World, ed. Polly Schaafsma (Univ of Albuquerque, 1994): chap. 6. [R]

 

 

Tamar Stieber, “The Little-Known Treasures of the Lower Pecos,” American Archaeology (Spring 2002): 12-21. [R]

 

Sat July 7       

Seminar: Kent Reilly: Interconnections among Mesoamerica, the Ancient Southwest and the Southeast Ceremonial Complex

 

Reading:

Polly Schaafsma, "Quetzalcoatl and the Horned and Feathered Serpent of the Southwest” in The Road to Aztlan/ Art From a Mythic Homeland, ed. Virginia Fields and Victor Zamudio-Taylor  (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001): 138-149. [R]

 

Polly Schaafsma, "Tlalocs, Kachinas, Sacred Bundles, and Related Symbolism in the Southwest and Mesoamerica," The Casas Grandes World, ed. Curtis Schaafsma and Carroll Riley  (Univ of Utah, 1999), chap. 12, pp. 164-192. [R]

 

Sun July 8

Full-day study visits in Santa Fe to Museum of Indian Art and Culture (MOIAC)/Laboratory of Anthropology and Indian Art Research Center (IARC)/School of American Research for roundtable examination of Pueblo and Navajo textiles and pottery.

 

Reading:

 

J. J. Brody, “In Space and Out of Context: Picture-Making in the Ancient American Southwest,” in The Road to Aztlan/ Art From a Mythic Homeland, ed. Virginia Fields and Victor Zamudio-Taylor  (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001): 149-63. [R]

 

J. J. Brody, Anasazi and Pueblo Painting (Univ of New Mexico, 1991): chap. 3: “Tentative Painting: A.D. 900-1300.” [R]

 

Mon July 9

Seminar: Ramón Gutiérrez (University of Chicago): Ancient Pueblo World: an

                        Introduction.

Reading:

 

Ramón Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away (Stanford Univ Press, 1991), Part I. [T]

           

Tu July 10

Seminar: Ramón Gutiérrez: the Spanish/ Pueblo Encounter

                       

Reading:

 

Ramón Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away (Stanford Univ Press, 1991), Part II [T]

 

Ramón Gutiérrez, "Mestizaje: Its History, Evolution, and Legacy on the Road to Aztlan," in The Road to Aztlan/ Art From a Mythic Homeland, ed. Virginia Fields and Victor Zamudio-Taylor  (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001): 290-309. [R]

 

Andrew Knaut, The Pueblo Revolt of 1680/ Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995). [Recommended]

 

           

Wed July 11

Full day study visits to Taos Pueblo, Millicent Rogers Museum and the Hacienda Martínez.

Reading:

John Bodine, "Taos Pueblo,” in Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 9: Southwest, ed. Alfonso Ortiz (Smithsonian, 1979): 255-67. [R]  

 

Sylvia Rodriguez, "Art, Tourism, and Race Relations in Taos: Toward a Sociology of the Art Colony," Journal of Anthropological Research 45 (1989): 77-99 [R]

 

David Weber, On the Edge of Empire: The Taos Hacienda of Los Martinez  (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1996): chap. 2: “A Landed Estate in Taos.” [R]

 

Th July 12

Free day in Santa Fe for individual pursuits.

 

 

  Fri July 13

Begin five-day field trip through the Four Corners region. Depart Santa Fe; stop at Zia Pueblo for visit to Mission Church and a meal. Visit Giusewa State Monument. Day ends with study tour of Aztec Ruins National Monument:12th century Chacoan site.

            Overnight at Step Back Inn.

 

Reading:

 

John Brinckerhoff Jackson, A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time (Yale Univ, 1994), 15-67. [R]

 

Robert Lister & Florence Lister, Aztec Ruins on the Animas (Tucson: Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, 1987). Recommended.

                                                           

Sat July 14     

Full day study tour of Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

Return to Aztec for overnight at Step Back Inn.

           

Reading:

 

Stephen Lekson, “The Great Pueblo Period in Southwestern Archaeology,” in Pueblo Style and Architecture, ed. Nicholas Markovich, Wolfgang Preiser & Fred Sturm (NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990): chap. 6: 64-77. [R]

 

David Grant Noble, Ed. New Light on Chaco Canyon. An Issue of Exploration, the Annual Bulletin of the School of American Research (1984): Foreword by Douglas Schwartz; “New Light on Chaco Canyon” by W. James Judge; “Reflections on Chacoan Architecture” by William Lumpkins; & Archaeoastronomy at Chaco Canyon” by Michael Zeilik. [R]

 

Ray Williamson, Howard Fisher & Donnel O’Flynn, “Anasazi Solar Observatories,” in Native American Astronomy, Ed. Anthony Aveni (University of Texas, 1977): chap. 14, pp. 203-17. [R]

 

Sun July 15                  

Drive to Mesa Verde. En route visit Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (Cortez, Colorado).

First day of site study at Mesa Verde with escorted by Donna Glowacki (Notre Dame University).

Overnight at Park Lodge.

                       

Reading:

 

Noble, David Grant, Ed. The Mesa Verde World. SAR Press 2006. Recommended Text.

 

 

Mon July 16

Second day of site study at Mesa Verde with Donna Glowacki.

Overnight at Park Lodge.

 

Tues July 17

Return trip from Mesa Verde to Santa Fe, stopping again en route at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.

 

Wed July 18

Morning free.

Afternoon study visit to New Mexico History Museum hosted by Fran Levine (Director, Museum of New Mexico).                 

 

Thurs July 19

Overnight study visit to Pecos Pueblo and Bernalillo (Coronado State Monument), site of ancient Pueblo painted kiva of Kuaua Pueblo. with Fran Levine.

            Overnight at Grants Best Western.

 

Reading:

 

Fran Levine, Our Prayers Are In This Place: Pecos Pueblo Identity Through the Centuries (Univ of New Mexico, 1999): chap. 5, “”The Pecos People and their Neighbors.” [R]

 

Albert Schroeder, "Pecos Pueblo," Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 9, Southwest, ed. Alfonso Ortiz (Smithsonian, 1979): 430-77. [R]

 

David Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America (Yale Univ. Press, 1992): chap. 5, “Exploitation, Contention, and Rebellion.” [R]

 

Carroll Riley, The Kachina and the Cross/ Indians and Spaniards in the Early Southwest (Univ of Utah Press, 1999): chap. 5, “The Pueblos and Their Neighbors in 1598.” [R]

 

J. J. Brody, Anasazi and Pueblo Painting  (Univ. of New Mexico, 1991): chap. 4: “The Florescence of Painting: A.D. 1300-1700.” [R].                                           

 

Fri July 20

Study visits to Acoma Pueblo and Laguna Pueblo.

Return to Santa Fe.

 

Reading:

Velma García-Mason, "Acoma Pueblo," in Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 9: Southwest, ed. Alfonso Ortiz (Smithsonian, 1979): 450-66. [R]                                                        

Florence Hawley Ellis, "Laguna Pueblo," in Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 9: Southwest, ed. Alfonso Ortiz (Smithsonian, 1979): 438-49. [R]

 

Richard Parmentier, "The Mythological Triangle: Poseyemu, Montezuma, & Jesus in the Pueblos," in Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 9: Southwest, ed. Alfonso Ortiz (Smithsonian, 1979): 609-22. [R]

 

Sat July 21

Seminar: Ramón Gutiérrez: the history and meaning of "Aztlán"

Reading:

Rudolfo Anaya and Francisco Lomeli, Aztlán/ Esssays on the Chicano Homeland (Univ of New Mexico, 1989): "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán" (1-5) & Michael Pina, "The Archaic, Historical and Mythicized Dimensions of Aztlán" ibid., (14- 48). [R]

 

Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, Border Visions (Univ of Arizona, 1996): chaps. 1, "Without Borders, the Original Vision," and 8, "Conclusions: Unmasking Borders of Minds and Method" [R]

 

Daniel Cooper Alarcón. The Aztec Palimpsest: Mexico in the Modern Imagination (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1997), Part One: "Chicano Nationalism and Mexicaness; Chapter One: "Toward a New Understanding of Aztlán and Chicano Cultural Identity," pgs. 3-35. [R]

 

Rafael Pérez-Torres, “Refiguring Aztlán,” Aztlán/ A Journal of Chicano Studies 22.2 (Fall 1997): 15-41. [R]

 

Philip Gonzales, “The Political Construction of Latino Nomenclatures in Twentieth-Century New Mexico,” Journal of the Southwest 35 (Summer 1993): 158-85. [R]

 

Sun July 22

Seminar: Ramón Gutiérrez: "Aztlán" in Chicano/a literature and art.

Final roundtable with Project Directores.

Evening: farewell reception hosted by CCHA.

 

Reading:

 

Virginia M. Fields and Victor Zamudio-Taylor, “Aztlán: Destination and Point of Departure,” in The Road to Aztlan/ Art From a Mythic Homeland, ed. Virginia Fields & Victor Zamudio-Taylor  (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001): 38-77. [R]

 

Amalia Mesa-Bains, "Spiritual Geographies,” in The Road to Aztlan/ Art From a Mythic Homeland, ed. Virginia Fields & Victor Zamudio-Taylor  (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001): 332-341 [R]

 

Victor Zamudio-Taylor, "Chicano/a Art and the Pre-Columbian Past,” in The Road to Aztlan/ Art From a Mythic Homeland, ed. Virginia Fields and Victor Zamudio-Taylor  (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001): 342-357. [R]

 

Davíd Carrasco, “Aztec Moments and Chicano Cosmovision: Aztlan Recalled to Life,” in Moctezuma’s Mexico/ Visions of the Aztec World, Revised Edition, ed. Davíd Carrasco and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (Univ of Colorado, 2003): 175-98. [T]

 

Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/ La Frontera/ the New Mestiza, 2nd edition (San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1985; 1999). Recommended reading.

 

Mon July 23

Participants check out of facilities at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.

Institute arrangements conclude.

 


Mesoamerica and the Southwest: A New History for an Ancient Land

 

Required Texts:

 

Carrasco, Davíd and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Eds..  Moctezuma’s Mexico /Visions of the Aztec World, Revised edition.  University Press of Colorado, 2003.

 

Fields, Virginia and V. Zamudio-Taylor, Eds. The Road to Aztlan/ Art From a Mythic Homeland, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001.

 

Gutiérrez, Ramón.  When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away:  Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1055-1846.  Stanford University Press, 1991.

 

Hay-Gilpin, K. and Polly Schaafsma, Eds. Painting the Cosmos:  Metaphor and Worldview in Images from the Southwest Pueblos and Mexico. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 6.7 (2010).

 

Lekson, Stephen H.  A History of the Ancient Southwest. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 2008.

 

Shaafsma, Polly, Ed. Kachinas in the Pueblo World. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1994.

 

Additional Recommended Texts:

 

Knaut, Andrew. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680/ conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

 

Noble, David Grant, Ed. In Search of Chaco. SAR Press 2004.

 

Noble, David Grant, Ed. The Mesa Verde World. SAR Press 2006.

 

Ortiz, Alfonso. The Tewa World. Univ of Chicago, 1969.

 

Pasztory, Esther. Teotihuacan/ An Experiment in Living. Univ of Oklahoma, 1997.

 

Quiñones Keber, Eloise (ed.) Representing Aztec Ritual: Performance, Text and Image in the work of Sahagún. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002.

 

Sandstrom, Alan. Corn is Our Blood/ Culture and Ethnic Identity in a Contemporary Aztec Indian Village. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.