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The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes

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Richard F. Townsend (Editor)

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00118.036

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Author Biographies

Anthony F. Aveni is Charles A. Dana Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology at Colgate University, Hamilton, and author of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico (1980) and Empires of Time (1989). He has been interested in problems of ancient calendars, timekeeping, and astronomy for more than two decades.

Elizabeth P. Benson, Research Associate of the Institute of Andean Studies and formerly Director of the Center for Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., is the author of The Mochica: A Culture of Peru (1972) and numerous articles on Moche art. She is currently working on a book on the symbolism of the animals in pre-Columbian art.

Elizabeth Hill Boone is the Director of the Center for Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.; author of The Codex Magliabechiano and the Lost Prototype of the Magliabechiano Group (1983) and Incarnations of the Aztec Supernatural: The Image of Huitzilopochtli in Mexico and Europe (1989); and editor of several works, including The Aztec Templo Mayor (1987).

J. J. Brody, Professor Emeritus of Art and Art History, and formerly Director of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, is the author of numerous books and articles on the art of the Southwest United States, including Mimbres Painted Pottery (1977) and Anasazi and Pueblo Painting before 1900 (1991).

Richard L. Burger, Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, New Haven, and Curator of South American Archaeology at the Peabody Museum, New Haven, wrote his doctoral dissertation for the University of California, Berkeley, on his 1975–76 excavations at Chavín de Huántar. He has since directed excavations at other early sites in Peru and has published articles and a book (1984) on Chavín. He has recently completed a general work on Chavín civilization, which is at press.

Beatriz de la Fuente was formerly Director of the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, where she is currently Chief Researcher, as well as Professor of the History of Art at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City. She is the author of a number of books, including Los hombres de piedra (1977) and Peldaños en la conciencia (1985).

Mary W. Helms, Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, has published numerous articles and several books on native cultures of Central America and related topics. Her most recent book is Ulysses’ Sail: An Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge, and Geographical Distance (1988).

Alan Kolata is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. A graduate of Harvard University, Cambridge, Kolata has done extensive field work in Peru and Bolivia, where he has investigated the Tiwanaku culture. He is currently Field Director of the Tiwanaco Archaeological Project.

Stephen H. Lekson received his doctorate from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in 1988. The author of a number of articles on the Chaco, Mimbres, and Hohokam cultures and of the book Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco Canyon (1986), he is currently President of Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.

Miguel León-Portilla, Professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, is currently Mexican Ambassador to UNESCO. Among his numerous publications on Aztec and Colonial Mexican history are Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind (1963) and Pre-Columbian Literature of Mexico (1969).

Colin McEwan, Special Exhibition Coordinator in the Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at The Art Institute of Chicago, is completing his doctoral dissertation in South American archaeology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He directs the Agua Blanca Archaeological project on the coast of Ecuador, and has published articles on diverse topics in Andean archaeology.

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Director of the Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, was in charge of the excavations at this site from 1978 on. Among his numerous publications on the Aztec peoples and the discoveries at the Templo Mayor is The Great Temple of the Aztecs (1988).

Mary Ellen Miller is Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, New Haven, where she received her doctorate in 1981. She is the author of The Art of Mesoamerica (1986), The Murals of Bonampak (1986), and, with Linda Schele, The Blood of Kings: Ritual and Dynasty in Maya Art (1986). She is currently working on a new book on Maya architecture.

Susan A. Niles received her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1981 she has taught at Lafayette College, where she is Associate Professor of Anthropology. She has written articles on Andean art and archaeology and is the author of Callachaca: Style and Status in an Inca Community (1987). She is currently studying the relationship between the Inca concept of history and the placement of Inca architecture.

Esther Pasztory received her doctorate from Columbia University, New York, where she is Professor of Art History and Archaeology. Most of her publications are on Teotihuacan and Aztec art. She is the author of The Murals of Tepantitla, Teotihuacan (1976) and Aztec Art (1983). She edited Middle Classic Mesoamerica: A.D. 400–700 (1978) and was a major contributor to Feathered Serpents and Flowering Trees: Reconstructing the Murals of Teotihuacan (1988).

Anne Paul, Research Associate of the Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley, is the author of Paracas Ritual Attire: Symbols of Authority in Ancient Peru (1990) and editor of Paracas Art and Architecture: Object and Context in South Coastal Peru (1991).

Carlos Ponce Sanginés is Director of the Centro de Estudios Antropológicos Tiwanaku. Formerly Director of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología de Bolivia, La Paz, and Minister of State, he has written numerous books and articles on Bolivian archaeology, anthropology, and Colonial history, including Tiwanaku: Descripción del templete semi-subterráneo (1969) and Tiwanaku: espacio, tiempo y cultura. Ensayo de síntesis arqueológica (1981).

Johan Reinhard, Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, is the author of The Nazca Lines: A New Perspective on Their Origin and Meaning (1988).

Vincent Scully, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University, New Haven, has written and lectured extensively on a wide field of subjects regarding architecture, ancient and modern, and the settings in which it evolved.

Rebecca Stone-Miller, a specialist in Huari textiles, received her doctorate from Yale University, New Haven. Now Assistant Professor of Art History at Emory University, Atlanta, she is also guest curator for the exhibition “To Weave for the Sun: Andean Textiles at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” (1992).

Richard F. Townsend, who received his doctorate from Harvard University, Cambridge, is Curator of the Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at The Art Institute of Chicago. His many publications include State and Cosmos in the Art of Tenochtitlan (1979) and The Aztecs (1992).

Juan Antonio Valdés, of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología, Guatemala City, has worked at various Maya sites in Guatemala, notably Uaxactún. He is Professor of Anthropology at the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala, Guatemala City.

Francisco Valdez received his doctorate from the Université de Paris (Nanterre). He has directed archaeological projects for the Museo del Banco Central, Quito; at La Tolita; and at Chobshi-Shabalula in the southern highlands of Ecuador. He is presently engaged in the Sayula Basin Archaeological Project in western Mexico.

Maarten Van de Guchte studied the history of art at the Rijksuniversiteit Amsterdam, and anthropology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where he received his doctorate. He has published on Inca sculpture, Colonial Peruvian art, and Amazonian art; forthcoming is his book, Carving the World: Inca Monumental Sculpture and Landscape. He is presently Curator at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

Evan Z. Vogt, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, and Curator Emeritus of Middle American Ethnology at Harvard University, Cambridge, also serves as Director of the Harvard Chiapas Project. He is the author of Zinacantan: A Maya Community in the Highlands of Chiapas (1969), Tortillas for the Gods: A Symbolic Analysis of Zinacanteco Rituals (1976), and The Zinacantecos of Mexico: A Modern Maya Way of Life (1990).

Tom Zuidema, who received his doctorate from the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, the Netherlands, where he was also Curator at the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. His interests include South American anthropology, the ethnohistory of Andean civilization, and the iconography of Andean art. His recent publications concern the Inca calendar and society, ritual, and myth in Cuzco; they include: The Ceque System of Cuzco: the Social Organization of the Capital of the Inca (1962), Inca Civilization at Cuzco (1991), and Reyes y guerreros (1991).

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