- Ritual, Politics, and Power: Mesoamerican Art and Culture

Catalog description

An interdisciplinary introduction to the art and architecture of Mesoamerica from the Formative Period (c.2000 BCE) to the arrival of the Spanish in the early sixteenth century CE. Students will explore the larger religious and political transformations of the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and other societies through their production of artistic objects. Particular attention will be paid to cultural memory and myth to understand the intersection of Indigenous history and cosmology as well as the manner in which these systems shaped social, ritual, and political order.