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DESCRIPTION:Barbara E. Mundy will present at the seminar in Renaissance and
  Early Modern Material Culture on Wednesday\, January 26\, at 12:15 pm. He
 r talk is entitled “Materialities of Ancient American Books: Paper and Oth
 er Flayed Skins.”The book tradition of ancient America\, specifically Meso
 america\, dates back over two thousand years. Catholic campaigns to extirp
 ate idolatry in the sixteenth century have left few surviving examples fro
 m pre-1520\, but more were created over the remainder of the century. Thes
 e books conveyed meanings to their publics as much by their materials as t
 hey did by the writing on the surfaces of their pages. Mundy’s talk will c
 enter on the paper used for books and other manuscripts\, which was concep
 tually and materially the flayed skin of the amatl tree. Her central quest
 ion is the nature of the connection between the flayed skin as a surface f
 or graphic inscription and as an agent for the material transformation of 
 human beings into deity impersonators (teixiptla).Barbara E. Mundy’s schol
 arship dwells in zones of contact between Native peoples and settler colon
 ists as they forged new visual cultures in the Americas. She has been part
 icularly interested in the social construction of space and its imaginary\
 , which was the subject of her first book\, The Mapping of New Spain (Chic
 ago\, 1996). Mundy’s recent book\, The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan\, the L
 ife of Mexico City (Texas\, 2015)\, draws on Indigenous texts and represen
 tations to counter a colonialist historiography and to argue for the city’
 s nature as an Indigenous city through the sixteenth century. Her work spa
 ns both digital and traditional formats. With Dana Leibsohn\, she is the c
 reator of Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America\, 1520–1820. She holds
  the 2021–22 Kislak Chair at the Library of Congress\, and the Donald and 
 Martha Robertson Chair in Latin American Art at Tulane University.This eve
 nt will be held via Zoom. A link will be circulated to registrants by 10 a
 m on the day of the event. This event will be live with automatic captions
 .
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Materialities of Ancient American Books
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