Cecelia F Klein
Biographic Data
| ID | 130181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecelia F Klein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecelia F |
| FAMILY NAME | Klein |
| SIGNATURE | KLEIN C F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Dialogues
Following an introductory essay, six short contributions by academics and museum curators in the United States (US) and Europe tackle the current state and future of Pre-Columbian visual culture studies. They explore the field’s impressive growth in this century, as well as some of the dangers it currently faces as a result of that growth. Several trace its present state to its origins and the part played by early Mexican and US nationalism, the …
"A New Interpretation of the Aztec Statue Called Coatlicue, "Snakes-Her-Skirt
Most scholars, citing a passage in the sixteenth-century Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún (1950-82), have interpreted the famous Aztec stone statue known as Coatlicue, "Snakes-Her-Skirt," as a reference to that goddess's role as the mother of the Aztec patron deity Huitzilopochtli. Sahagún's text, however, cannot account for the statue's portrayal of Coatlicue as decapitated and dismembered, the presence of similar statues that appear to…
On the Definition of Shamanism
"On Sharpness and Scholarship in the Debate on "Shamanism
Not like Us and All the Same: Pre-Columbian Art History and the Construction of the Nonwest
The Role of Shamanism in Mesoamerican Art: A Reassessment
Increasing numbers of scholars are relying on the concept of shamanism to interpret preColumbian artworks without examining its origins and questioning its viability. This essay explores the historical roots of this fields romance with the shaman and offers an explanation of its appeal. We argue that by avoiding such terms as priest, doctor, and political leader, the words shaman and shamanism have helped scholars to other preColumbian peoples by…
Gender in pre-Hispanic America: A symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 12 and 13 October 1996
The Devil and the Skirt: An Iconographic Inquiry Into the Pre-Hispanic Nature of the Tzitzimime
Similarities in certain paintings and sculptures created by pre-Conquest and early Colonial Aztec artists strongly suggest that the original identities and nature of the tzitzimime changed over the decades following the Spanish conquest. These images support textual evidence that Spanish authors, typically mendicants and clergymen, quickly conflated the tzitzimime with the Devil and his servants, in the process demonizing and ultimately masculini…
The History of the Indies of New Spain
Engendering Tomb 7 at Monte Alban: Respinning an Old Yarn [and Comments and Reply]
Feathered Serpents and Flowering Trees: Reconstructing the Murals of Teotihuacan
Snares and Entrails: Mesoamerican Symbols of Sin and Punishment
Mayamania: The Blood of Kings” in Retrospect
As numerous newspaper and magazine articles testify, U.S. public interest in the pre-Hispanic Maya of southeastern Mesoamerica is currently at an all-time high. This is attributable in large part to several recent traveling exhibitions of Maya art. The latest of these exhibitions, by far the most lavish and well promoted and therefore the most influential of the series, has generated considerable controversy among Mesoamericanists. It has done th…
Masking Empire: The Material Effects of Masks in Aztec Mexico
Evaluation of a halfway house for women
Faces of Fiesta: Mexican Masks in Context
The Archaeology of Ancient Peru and the Work of Max Uhle
Author(s): Menzel, Dorothy | Abstract: Overview of objects from ancient Peru collected by archaeologist Max Uhle now in the Lowie Museum of Anthropology
Engendering Tomb 7 at Monte Alban: Respinning an Old Yarn [and Comments and Reply]
The Role of Shamanism in Mesoamerican Art: A Reassessment
Increasing numbers of scholars are relying on the concept of shamanism to interpret preColumbian artworks without examining its origins and questioning its viability. This essay explores the historical roots of this fields romance with the shaman and offers an explanation of its appeal. We argue that by avoiding such terms as priest, doctor, and political leader, the words shaman and shamanism have helped scholars to other preColumbian peoples by…
The Devil and the Skirt: An Iconographic Inquiry Into the Pre-Hispanic Nature of the Tzitzimime
Similarities in certain paintings and sculptures created by pre-Conquest and early Colonial Aztec artists strongly suggest that the original identities and nature of the tzitzimime changed over the decades following the Spanish conquest. These images support textual evidence that Spanish authors, typically mendicants and clergymen, quickly conflated the tzitzimime with the Devil and his servants, in the process demonizing and ultimately masculini…
Feathered Serpents and Flowering Trees: Reconstructing the Murals of Teotihuacan
Masking Empire: The Material Effects of Masks in Aztec Mexico
On the Definition of Shamanism
"On Sharpness and Scholarship in the Debate on "Shamanism
"A New Interpretation of the Aztec Statue Called Coatlicue, "Snakes-Her-Skirt
Most scholars, citing a passage in the sixteenth-century Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún (1950-82), have interpreted the famous Aztec stone statue known as Coatlicue, "Snakes-Her-Skirt," as a reference to that goddess's role as the mother of the Aztec patron deity Huitzilopochtli. Sahagún's text, however, cannot account for the statue's portrayal of Coatlicue as decapitated and dismembered, the presence of similar statues that appear to…
Snares and Entrails: Mesoamerican Symbols of Sin and Punishment
Mayamania: The Blood of Kings” in Retrospect
As numerous newspaper and magazine articles testify, U.S. public interest in the pre-Hispanic Maya of southeastern Mesoamerica is currently at an all-time high. This is attributable in large part to several recent traveling exhibitions of Maya art. The latest of these exhibitions, by far the most lavish and well promoted and therefore the most influential of the series, has generated considerable controversy among Mesoamericanists. It has done th…
Evaluation of a halfway house for women
Not like Us and All the Same: Pre-Columbian Art History and the Construction of the Nonwest
The Archaeology of Ancient Peru and the Work of Max Uhle
Author(s): Menzel, Dorothy | Abstract: Overview of objects from ancient Peru collected by archaeologist Max Uhle now in the Lowie Museum of Anthropology
Faces of Fiesta: Mexican Masks in Context
Evaluation of a halfway house for women
Masking Empire: The Material Effects of Masks in Aztec Mexico
Mayamania: The Blood of Kings” in Retrospect
As numerous newspaper and magazine articles testify, U.S. public interest in the pre-Hispanic Maya of southeastern Mesoamerica is currently at an all-time high. This is attributable in large part to several recent traveling exhibitions of Maya art. The latest of these exhibitions, by far the most lavish and well promoted and therefore the most influential of the series, has generated considerable controversy among Mesoamericanists. It has done th…
Feathered Serpents and Flowering Trees: Reconstructing the Murals of Teotihuacan
Snares and Entrails: Mesoamerican Symbols of Sin and Punishment
Engendering Tomb 7 at Monte Alban: Respinning an Old Yarn [and Comments and Reply]
The History of the Indies of New Spain
The Devil and the Skirt: An Iconographic Inquiry Into the Pre-Hispanic Nature of the Tzitzimime
Similarities in certain paintings and sculptures created by pre-Conquest and early Colonial Aztec artists strongly suggest that the original identities and nature of the tzitzimime changed over the decades following the Spanish conquest. These images support textual evidence that Spanish authors, typically mendicants and clergymen, quickly conflated the tzitzimime with the Devil and his servants, in the process demonizing and ultimately masculini…
Gender in pre-Hispanic America: A symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 12 and 13 October 1996
Not like Us and All the Same: Pre-Columbian Art History and the Construction of the Nonwest
The Role of Shamanism in Mesoamerican Art: A Reassessment
Increasing numbers of scholars are relying on the concept of shamanism to interpret preColumbian artworks without examining its origins and questioning its viability. This essay explores the historical roots of this fields romance with the shaman and offers an explanation of its appeal. We argue that by avoiding such terms as priest, doctor, and political leader, the words shaman and shamanism have helped scholars to other preColumbian peoples by…
"On Sharpness and Scholarship in the Debate on "Shamanism
On the Definition of Shamanism
"A New Interpretation of the Aztec Statue Called Coatlicue, "Snakes-Her-Skirt
Most scholars, citing a passage in the sixteenth-century Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún (1950-82), have interpreted the famous Aztec stone statue known as Coatlicue, "Snakes-Her-Skirt," as a reference to that goddess's role as the mother of the Aztec patron deity Huitzilopochtli. Sahagún's text, however, cannot account for the statue's portrayal of Coatlicue as decapitated and dismembered, the presence of similar statues that appear to…
Dialogues
Following an introductory essay, six short contributions by academics and museum curators in the United States (US) and Europe tackle the current state and future of Pre-Columbian visual culture studies. They explore the field’s impressive growth in this century, as well as some of the dangers it currently faces as a result of that growth. Several trace its present state to its origins and the part played by early Mexican and US nationalism, the …
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