The portable universe = El universo en tus manos : thought and splendor of Indigenous Colombia /

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 ima...

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Other Authors:	Burtenshaw, Julia (Contributor), García Botero, Héctor (Contributor), Magaloni Kerpel, Diana (Contributor), Uribe Villegas, María Alicia (Contributor), Cayón, Luis (Contributor), Nuibita Dingula, Francisco Chimontero (Contributor), Cobo Betancourt, Juan Fernando (Contributor), Cummins, Tom, 1949- (Contributor), Davis, Wade (Contributor), Falchetti, Ana María (Contributor), Giraldo, Santiago (Archaeologist) (Contributor), James, Ariel José (Contributor), Londoño Sulkin, Carlos David (Contributor), López Castaño, Carlos Eduardo (Contributor), Muñoz Arbeláez, Santiago (Contributor), Piazzini, Emilio (Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Text in English.
Published:	Los Angeles, CA : New York, NY : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; DelMonico Books·D.A.P., [2022]
Subjects:	Indians of South America > Colombia > Exhibitions. Indians of South America > Colombia > Antiquities > Exhibitions. Indian art > Colombia > Exhibitions. Art, Colombian > Exhibitions. Colombia > Antiquities > Exhibitions. Peuples autochtones > Colombie > Expositions. Peuples autochtones > Colombie > Antiquités > Expositions. Art colombien > Expositions. Colombie > Antiquités > Expositions. Art précolombien > Colombie > Expositions. Antiquities Art, Colombian Indian art Indian mythology Indians of South America > Antiquities Indigenous art Colombia exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs History Exhibition catalogs. Essays. Illustrated works. Catalogues d'exposition. Ouvrages illustrés.

Table of 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
Landscapes 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.