- Docente: Davide Domenici
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-DEA/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Course contents
The Native Mesoamerican Civilizations course is aimed to offer informations useful to analyze the historical, social and cultural reality of Native Mesoamerican civilization. This requires analytical tools spanning in the fields of archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography in order to investigate elements of continuity and discontinuity between the pre-colonial past and the modern and contemporary eras.
Specifically, the course will deal with the various communication strategies used by the ancient Mesoamerican civilizations. We will analyze different media such as monumental arts and various forms of pictographic writing, studying their formal and thematical charachter. In the same perspective of the encounter between different communication forms, we will treat the historical processes of the discovery and colonization of Mesoamerica.
Course starts on Wednesday, October 8th 2008
Days, Hours and Classroom: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 11-13 hrs.
Aula Multifunzionale, via Mascarella 44, Bologna.
Readings/Bibliography
5 credits program:
Domenici Davide, I linguaggi del potere. Arti e propaganda nell'antica Mesoamerica, Jaca Book-Clueb, Milano-Bologna 2005.
Botta Sergio, La religione del Messico antico, Carocci, Roma 2006.
6 credits program:
Domenici Davide, I linguaggi del potere. Arti e propaganda nell'antica Mesoamerica, Jaca Book-Clueb, Milano-Bologna 2005.
Botta Sergio, La religione del Messico antico, Carocci, Roma 2006.
Boone Elizabeth, “Le storie dipinte del Messico azteco”, in A. Lupo, L. López Luján e L. Migliorati (a cura di), Gli Aztechi tra passato e presente, Carocci, Roma 2006, pp. 13-22.
10 credits program:
Domenici Davide, I linguaggi del potere. Arti e propaganda nell'antica Mesoamerica, Jaca Book-Clueb, Milano-Bologna 2005.
Botta Sergio, La religione del Messico antico, Carocci, Roma 2006.
Boone Elizabeth, “Le storie dipinte del Messico azteco”, in A. Lupo, L. López Luján e L. Migliorati (a cura di), Gli Aztechi tra passato e presente, Carocci, Roma 2006, pp. 13-22.
Todorov Tzvetan, La conquista dell'America. Il problema dell'«altro», Einaudi, Torino 1992.
12 credits program:
Domenici Davide, I linguaggi del potere. Arti e propaganda nell'antica Mesoamerica, Jaca Book-Clueb, Milano-Bologna 2005.
Botta Sergio, La religione del Messico antico, Carocci, Roma 2006.
Boone Elizabeth, “Le storie dipinte del Messico azteco”, in A. Lupo, L. López Luján e L. Migliorati (a cura di), Gli Aztechi tra passato e presente, Carocci, Roma 2006, pp. 13-22.
Todorov Tzvetan, La conquista dell'America. Il problema dell'«altro», Einaudi, Torino 1992.
Domenici Davide, "Vesti di segni, disegni di vesti. Lo scambio di doni nei primi incontri tra aztechi e spagnoli", in Sergio Botta (a cura di ), America indigena, Quaderni di simbologia del vestire, Edizioni Nuova Cultura, Roma 2007. (downloadable in the "Teaching Material" section of this website)
Teaching methods
The frontal lessons, in which discussion of new findings and publication will be stimulated, will be integrated by discussion sessions and speeches aimed to inform the students about the ongoing field researches.
Assessment methods
The final exam will be an oral one, with questions aimed to verify the student's knowledge of the themes discussed during frontal lessons as well as those treated in the program's texts.
Teaching tools
The frontal lessons will be supported by Power Point presentations in order to visualize elements that, due to their "exotic" character, are scarcely known to the students. During the lessons we will use images and data proceeding from the field research project directed by the professor, in order to stimulate students' participation and favour their perception of field research methodologies.
Office hours
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