Scholars in Dark Glasses- Photos of MMARP Symposia, 1982 to 1994
di Lawrence G. Desmond
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Informazioni sul libro
The Introduction discusses the founding of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project (MMARP) by Professor David Carrasco at the University of Colorado-Boulder around 1980, symposia photos, and the development of the Templo Mayor archaeological site documentary photographic archive from photo donations and documentary photos taken by Desmond of the Templo Mayor archaeological site in Mexico City in the 1980s
The photos of symposia are documentary in style, and are of the archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, historians of religions, art historians, historians, archaeo-astronomers, and many other scholars from Mexico, the US, Japan, UK, and Europe who contributed to the development of a new direction in the study of the life and religious practices of the Aztecs, Maya, and other ancient peoples who civilized Mesoamerica before the European invasion.
Funzionalità e dettagli
- Categoria principale: Messico
- Categorie aggiuntive Libri d'arte e fotografia
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Formato del progetto: Orizzontale standard, 25×20 cm
N° di pagine: 196 -
Isbn
- Copertina morbida: 9781006867347
- Copertina rigida con sovraccoperta: 9781006867330
- Copertina rigida rivestita: 9781006867323
- Data di pubblicazione: nov 16, 2014
- Lingua English
- Parole chiave Mexico, archaeology, MMARP, Eliade, Carrasco
Informazioni sull'autore
Lawrence G. Desmond received a PhD in anthropology and archaeology from the University of Colorado-Boulder; an MA in anthropology from the Universidad de las Americas in Cholula, Mexico, and has carried-out ethnographic and archaeological research in Mexico and Guatemala for more than 50 years. He taught at the University of Minnesota, San Francisco State University, and College of San Mateo. Desmond has carried out ethnographic fieldwork at Santo Tomas Jalieza, Oaxaca, and archeological fieldwork including excavations, ground penetrating radar surveys , close range photogrammetry recording at Chichén Itzá, Uxmal, Labna, Dzbilchaltun, Pyramid of Izamal, and Balankanche Cave. Desmond's books, A Dream of Maya and Yucatán through her eyes are about the photography, writings and field work of Alice Dixon and Augustus Le Plongeon. Desmond's photos of Mexico are archived by Harvard's Peabody Museum, and of the Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project at the Getty Research Institute.