The portable universe = El universo en tus manos : thought and splendor of Indigenous Colombia Julia Burtenshaw, Héctor García Botero, Diana Magaloni, María Alicia Uribe Villegas ; with contributions by Luis Cayón, Francisco Chimontero Nuibita Dingula, Juan Fernando Cobo Betancourt, Tom Cummins, Wade Davis, Ana María Falchetti, Santiago Giraldo, Ariel James, Carlos David Londoño Sulkin, Carlos E. López, Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez, Carlo Emilio Piazzini Suárez

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Object Details

author
Burtenshaw, Julia
García Botero, Héctor
Magaloni Kerpel, Diana
Uribe Villegas, María Alicia
contributor
Cayón, Luis
Nuibita Dingula, Francisco Chimontero
Cobo Betancourt, Juan Fernando
Cummins, Tom 1949-
Davis, Wade
Falchetti, Ana María
Giraldo, Santiago (Archaeologist)
James, Ariel José
Londoño Sulkin, Carlos David
López Castaño, Carlos Eduardo
Muñoz Arbeláez, Santiago
Piazzini, Emilio
host institution
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
organizer
Museo del Oro (Banco de la República)
Title statement from pages [32]-[33]
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 29-October 2, 2022; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presented as "Golden Worlds: The Portable Universe of Indigenous Colombia," November 6, 2022-April 23, 2023; and Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, presented as "L'univers au creux des mains: pensées et splendeurs de la Colombie autochtone," May 29-October 8, 2023
"This exhibition was organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museo del Oro, Banco de República, Bogotá"--Colophon
"The portable universe = El universo en tus manos: thought and splendor of Indigenous Colombia" : May 29-October 2, 2022, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, United States
"Golden Worlds: The Portable Universe of Indigenous Colombia" : November 6, 2022-April 23, 2023, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States
"L'univers au creux des mains: pensées et splendeurs de la Colombie autochtone" : May 29-October 8, 2023, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Québec, Canada
NMAI copy Purchased from the NMAI Library Endowment
Contents
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta -- Map -- Eastern Cordillera -- Upper-Middle Magdalena Valley -- Birds of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and their significance in Kaggaba culture / Francisco Chimontero Nuibita Dingula -- To dream a dream together : conversations with Mamo Camilo and Jaison, Elder Arhuaco brothers from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta / Diana Magaloni -- An enduring legacy : an introduction to Colombia / Wade Davis -- The societies of ancient Colombia : a brief (re)consideration / Julia Burtenshaw -- Upper Magdalena Valley -- Nariño Highlands -- Archaeology in Colombia and the (re)construction of the Indigenous past / Carlo Emilio Piazzini Suárez -- Portable universe, paper kingdom : the muisca in colonial terms / Juan Fernando Cobo Betancourt -- "They value emeralds even more than gold" : Muiscas, Spaniards, and items of value / Tom Cummins -- Shamanism as the body of ecological and ethical knowledge: a perspective from cognitive anthropology / Ariel James -- Human beings and plants : intimate relations / Carlos David Londoño Sulkin -- Humanized tropical forests in the Middle Cauca Valley / Carlos E. López -- Boi : a history of Indigenous textiles / Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez -- Calima-Malagana Region -- Middle Cauca Valley -- Pacific Coast -- Landscape of beauty : the Tairona and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta / Santiago Giraldo -- The symbolic power of ancient metallurgy / Ana María Falchetti -- The value of the broken : ethics and aesthetics in ancient repairs from pre-conquest Colombia / Héctor Garcia Botero -- Items for directing the universe : the fusion of macro and micro scales, and the power of materiality among the Eastern Tukanoans / Luis Cayón -- Western Caribbean Lowlands -- Amazon Basin
Summary
Spanning major pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia, and featuring artworks made in this region - from cast gold pendants and ceramic effigies to modern Indigenous stools, barkcloths and featherworks - [the volume] recasts how we approach ancient Colombian art. Featuring a cover design with tip-on images, the book is arranged so as to envelop the works with life and meaning and guide readers to different ways of understanding the world and our place in it. It includes contributions by Indigenous Colombians, historians, ethnographers, archaeologists, and art historians. The Portable Universe/El Universo en tus Manos recaptures some of the knowledge of Indigenous American cultures and presents new historical findings, drawing heavily on contemporary Indigenous understandings to evoke a worldview in which these ancient pieces make sense and have power today
2022
21st century
Type
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
History
Essays
Illustrated works
Physical description
343 pages color illustrations, 1 color map 30 cm
Place
Colombia
Title
Universo en tus manos
Thought and splendor of Indigenous Colombia
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Indigenous peoples--Antiquities
Indigenous art
Art, Colombian
Antiquities
Indian art
Indian mythology
Indians of South America--Antiquities
History
Record ID
siris_sil_1156845
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0