The Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes
Public Lecture by Mark Plotkin, Co-Founder and President of the Amazon Conservation Team, and Brian Hettler, GIS and New Technologies Manager of the Amazon Conservation Team
Richard Evans Schultes—ethnobotanist, taxonomist, writer, photographer, and Harvard professor—is regarded as one of the most important plant explorers of the twentieth century. In 1941, Schultes traveled to the Amazon rainforest on a mission to study how Indigenous peoples used plants for medicinal, ritual, and practical purposes. A new interactive online map, produced by the Amazon Conservation Team, traces the landscapes and cultures that Schultes explored in the Colombian Amazon. Plotkin and Hettler will share this map and discuss the relevance of Schultes’ travels and collections for science, conservation, and education in the twenty-first century.
Presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology in collaboration with the Amazon Conservation Team and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Learn more about the Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes by using this interactive map:
Visiting the Museu do Negro - Rio de Janeiro
Museu do Negro is dedicated to the history of black people in Brazil, in aspects related to religion and slavery. In 1967 a fire destroyed the church and part of the collection. The Museum was officially founded in 1969.
R. Uruguaiana, 77 - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil
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Before Brasilia: Frontier Life in Central Brazil
In this talk, Mary Karasch discussed her decades-long research on frontier life in central Brazil using diverse sources in Brazil, Portugal, Austria, England and at the Library of Congress. The presentation covered the challenges to finding documents to write about the slaving frontier of Goiás where both indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans resisted enslavement.
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Qala- Gala Preserve 2016
Gala State Historical and Ethnographic Reserve
It was established by Order No.135 of Cabinet of Ministry of the Republic of Azerbaijan on 18 April, 1988.
228 architectural and archaeological monuments are protected in Gala Reserve. The most ancient monuments include: ancient human settlement of 3rd millennium B.C., the wall relics of Primeval Era, habitats of Bronze Age.
Architectural monuments in the area ascribed to Middle Ages, while archaeological ones to Bronze Age and Middle Ages. Available architectural monuments are mosques, bath complexes, reservoirs (ovdan), mausoleums, shrines, houses, etc.; archaeological monuments are castle ruins (in 2011 restoration and reconstruction work implemented); underground roads, ovdan remains, rock pits, underground canals, ruins of bath-houses etc.
Mosques built in different periods, as well as ovdans, tombs and bathes are specific among architectural monuments. There are three museums in Qala Preserve- Gala Archaeological Ethnographic Museum Complex, Gala Castle, The Museum of Antique İtems.
LIKEarchitects constructs a temporary salvador dali museum inside a lisbon mall
LIKEarchitects constructs a temporary salvador dali museum inside a lisbon mall
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placed in the central space of a shopping mall in lisbon, this temporary salvador dali museum has been created experimental portuguese studio LIKEarchitects. the installation has been designed to welcome the exhibition of 100 of dali’s woodblock engravings, inspired by dante’s ‘divine comedy’. organized in three thematic wings — hell, purgatory and paradise — the exhibition is distributed across nine interconnected rooms whose layout references the epic poem’s close-fitted structural composition.
occurring where two walls intersect, a series of voids allow visitors to pass between rooms, while simultaneously freeing up wall space for the display of artwork. the rational, yet maze-like layout allows the visitor to become an active part of the presentation, encouraging different interpretations to the poem’s traditional plot. from the galleries above, shoppers are able to witness the routes visitors take as they move through the exhibition, establishing a permanent visual permeability.
SACO7 Contemporary Art Festival / 2018
Seventh edition of SACO Contemporary Art Festival Origin and myth deployed twelve exhibitions in its museum without a museum exhibition circuit, calling 24 thousand visits between Antofagasta and San Pedro de Atacama.
School without a school included lectures by Luis Camnitzer (Uruguay), Tiago Pinto de Carvalho (Portugal / Mexico), Rodrigo Gómez Rovira and Fernando Godoy (Chile); offered the audience a curatorial panel with members of all the exhibitions of the circuit and a colloquium on the relations between education and art, with presentations by Pablo Rojas and Jorge Padilla (Chile); invited local artists to review portfolios, carried out by Margarita Sánchez (Cuba) and Rodrigo Gómez Rovira; he organized a talk for mediators with Luis Camnitzer; two sound art workshops by Fernando Godoy and Rainer Krause (Germany / Chile); a workshop in León & Cociña (Chile), which promoted, not for the first time, the local emerging production. Classroom encounters were held in Antofagasta, given by Juan José Alfaro (Costa Rica), Teobaldo Lagos (Chile / Germany) and Thiago Guedes (Brazil); in Calama led by Gonzalo Reyes (Chile / Germany), Chan Sook Choi (Korea / Germany) and Shingo Yoshida (Japan / Germany); in María Elena given by Juan Castillo (Chile / Sweden) and participants of Intervened Deserts II; in Mejillones with Valeria Fahrenkrog (Chile / Germany); and in San Pedro de Atacama with Jacqueline Lacasa (Uruguay). Two international residences deepened themes of an intense presence in the region: Teobaldo Lagos studied the migratory phenomenon in the city and Jaqueline Lacasa deepened into archeology and anthropology in San Pedro de Atacama, both being in situ research processes that ended with an exhibition project.
In the transitory premises of the Museum Gustavo Le Paige in San Pedro de Atacama, an encounter between scientists and artists was held, trying to find a common language.
As every year, the team SACO and their guests met with the teacher and students of the basic school of Quillagua to hear how, against any logic, grows The driest place on earth. Finally, the deserts of Taltal, Pedro de Valdivia and Ollagüe were intervened in an ephemeral way, places where a minimal gesture, frequently intuitive, transforms a piece of nothing into something, for a moment.
Visita museo arqueologico San Andres El Salvador
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Narrativas Fantásticas no Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia a partir do Stop Motion
O MAE/USP realizou na atividade de férias em janeiro de 2014 o contato lúdico com as temáticas da arqueologia, etnologia e museologia. Foi estimulada a imaginação dos participantes a partir da criação de narrativas fantásticas sobre o cotidiano do Museu utilizando a linguagem do Stop Motion.
Esse vídeo é resultado do trabalho dos participantes durante três dias de oficina.
Joya de Ceren in San Salvador of El Salvador
Joya de Ceren Archaeological Site is a pre-Columbian Maya farming village that has been preserved remarkably intact after it was destroyed by volcanic ash around 600 AD.
Loma Caldera, a nearby volcano, erupted and buried the village under 14 layers of ash. The villagers were apparently able to flee in time -- no bodies have been found -- although they left behind utensils, ceramics, furniture, and even half-eaten food in their haste to escape. The site was discovered in 1976 by Payson Sheets, a professor of anthropology. Since then the excavation process has continued. About 70 buildings have been uncovered.
Even more important than the buildings, however, are the paleoethnobotanical remains. The low temperature of the wet ash from Loma Caldera, as well as its rapid fall, ensured the preservation of much of the plant material. Of great importance is the discovery of manioc fields, the first time manioc cultivation had been found at a New World archaeological site.
El museo, actor sociopolítico / The Museum as socio-political actor
Marcelo Araujo, David Anderson, Robert Stein y Américo Castilla.
¿Cómo responder frente a los acontecimientos de la actualidad? A favor de museos receptivos de lo que sucede puertas afuera y promotores de discusiones hacia la sociedad, ¿Es responsabilidad del museo identificar los problemas de los ciudadanos? ¿La proximidad temporal con lo que está sucediendo es un impedimento para manifestarse?
How should museums respond to current political events? Do museums have a responsibility to champion social change, influence political discourse, and assume greater civic responsibilities? If so, how? This conversation will explore museums as political influencers and provocateurs, and activators of social change.
Simpósio Sapientia - Presente ou Genealogia?
Apresentação da mesa Presente ou Genealogia? Como estar no presente e no futuro sem esquecer as origens? dentro do Simpósio Sapientia – Arqueologia de um saber esquecido, com palestras de Ekhard Fürlus e Norval Baitello Junior.
Com mediação de Diogo Bornhausen.
Realizado nos dias 15 e 16 de setembro de 2015, no Sesc Consolação, o encontro propôs um resgate da sabedoria nos dias de hoje a partir de diálogos entre diversos estudiosos.
O evento foi uma parceria entre o Sesc São Paulo, Centro Alemão de Ciência e Inovação – São Paulo (DWIH-SP), Instituto Goethe, Centro Interdisciplinar de Semiótica da Cultura e da Mídia (CISC-PUC-SP), Centro de Pesquisa Interdisciplinar de Antropologia Histórica – Universidade Livre de Berlim (IFHA-FU Berlin) e Universidade de Música FRANZ-LISZT de Weimar.
Com concepção de Norval Baitello Júnior, doutor em Comunicação pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo e Christoph Wulf, antropólogo e historiador alemão da Freie Universität Berlin.
Ekhard Fürlus
Estudou filosofia e teologia na Freie Universität, Technische Universität e Kirchlichen Hochschule. Dissertação de mestrado em História Eclesiástica, doutorado na Universidade Livre de Berlim, assistente no Staatliche Museum Preußischer SMPK, DAAD, Akademie der Künste e Landesmuseum Berlinische Galerie. Entre 1996 e 2001 foi assistente de pesquisa na Berlinische Galerie no arquivo da artista Hannah Höch. Em 2006, foi assistente de pesquisa acadêmica na Academy of Media Arts de Colônia sobre arqueologia e variantologia da mídia. Desde 2007, assiste de pesquisa na University of the Arts de Berlin, UDK, Institute for Time Base Media. Publicou, entre outros, Anarchie und Mystik, 2015, e Varientology de 1 a 5 com Siegfried Zielinski.
Norval Baitello Junior
Doutor em Ciências da Comunicação pela Universidade Livre de Berlim, pós-doutorado no instituto de sociologia da Universidade Livre de Berlim, 1995, e no Centro Internacional de Pesquisas em Ciências da Cultura IFK, em Viena em 2005. É professor titular na PUC-SP, foi diretor da faculdade de Comunicação e Filosofia entre 1997 e 2001, tendo criado os cursos de Comunicação e Artes do Corpo e de Comunicação e Multimeios, É pesquisador do CNPq. Fundou e dirige o Centro Interdisciplinar de Semiótica da Cultura e da Mídia (CISC) desde 1992. Publicou, entre outros, O Pensamento Sentado: emoção e imaginação, em organização com o professor Christoph Wulf, em 2014, A era da iconofagia e A serpente, a maçã e o holograma, em 2010.
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• 48:10 Início da fala de Norval Baitello Junior
History and Anthropology: Drugs and Sacred Medicines | Plantas Sagradas en las Américas
Speakers and presentations (This panel took place on February 23, 2018):
Agustín Guzmán - La Wachuma, medicina de los sueños y del autoconocimiento.
Marco Antonio Arce & José Manuel Rodríguez - Consumo de plantas y hongos psicoactivos en las culturas precolombinas de Costa Rica.
José Ignacio Giraldo - El Yoco, planta de conocimiento, protagonista del primer Santuario de Plantas Medicinales en Colombia.
Alí Cortina - Una mirada histórica sobre los usos del peyote y del Bufo alvarius en la Ciudad de México.
The Sacred Plants in the Americas conference was held on February 23, 24, and 25, 2018 in Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico. The conference had the purpose of building a bridge between indigenous and traditional psychoactive practices, psychedelic science, and drug policy through multidisciplinary and intercultural dialogue. In a context in which drug policy reforms are temporary, we consider it relevant to build spaces for discussion about psychoactive species and their growing multiplicity of uses. Moreover, it also sought to give voice to the indigenous people, who have been knowledgeable about psychoactive plants since ancient times, and they will be providing lectures at the conference.
El congreso Plantas Sagradas en las Américas se realizó los días 23, 24 y 25 de febrero del 2018 en Ajijic, Jalisco, México. Tuvo la finalidad de construir un puente entre las prácticas indígenas y tradicionales de psicoactivos, la ciencia psicodélica y las políticas de drogas; mediante el diálogo multidisciplinario e intercultural. En un contexto en que las reformas a las políticas de drogas son coyunturales, consideramos relevante construir espacios de discusión sobre las especies psicoactivas y su creciente multiplicidad de usos. Además se buscó dar voz a los indígenas, que han sido conocedores de las plantas psicoactivas desde tiempos ancestrales, por lo que ellos impartirán las conferencias magistrales durante el congreso.
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Digitalización CANON-MNA
El acervo del Museo Nacional de Antropología será digitalizado con la finalidad de mantener un registro de cómo se miran las piezas y que mediante la digitalización se abra la mirada.
Pablo León de la Barra in Conversation with Carla Stellweg
Pablo León de la Barra, Guggenheim UBS MAP curator for Latin American art, talks with art historian and SVA faculty member Carla Stellweg.
Elsa Stamatopoulou, Indigenous Peoples' Cultural Heritage as a Human Right
What does it mean to see Indigenous Peoples’ Cultural Heritage as a Human Right and why does it matter? How can we correct the invisibility imposed by a settler colonial system of “the doctrine of discovery” and of “empty lands”? How can we create a true pluricultural democracy, where the identity, culture, traditional knowledge and history of Native Americans and all Indigenous Peoples, and others will be respected and protected, instead of being destroyed by state and non-state actors? In this country, the Bears Ears and Chaco struggles today are linked to Standing Rock, to Wounded Knee and to many previous struggles since the time of colonization that have inspired the Indigenous Movement in this country and around the world. The preservation of Indigenous Peoples’ Cultural heritage is a human rights matter for all.
Elsa Stamatopoulou is the Director of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Program at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, and Adjunct Professor, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race & Department of Anthropology at Columbia University.
2012 phenomenon | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:50 1 Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
00:03:15 1.1 Apocalypse
00:05:07 1.2 Objections
00:07:56 1.3 Prior associations
00:09:45 2 Maya references to bʼakʼtun 13
00:10:20 2.1 Tortuguero
00:12:32 2.2 La Corona
00:13:12 2.3 Dates beyond bʼakʼtun 13
00:15:45 3 2012 Age beliefs
00:17:29 3.1 Origins
00:20:15 3.2 Galactic alignment
00:20:51 3.2.1 Precession
00:23:19 3.2.2 Mysticism
00:25:12 3.2.3 Criticism
00:27:10 3.3 Timewave zero and the iI Ching/i
00:29:33 4 Doomsday theories
00:30:15 4.1 Other alignments
00:33:24 4.2 Geomagnetic reversal
00:35:07 4.3 Planet X/Nibiru
00:35:52 4.4 Other catastrophes
00:38:37 5 Public reaction
00:40:15 5.1 Europe
00:43:45 5.2 Asia and Australia
00:45:25 5.3 Mexico and Central America
00:49:24 5.4 South America
00:51:00 5.5 North America
00:51:47 6 Cultural influence
00:56:50 7 See also
00:57:20 8 Notes
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The 2012 phenomenon was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or otherwise transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012. This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, and as such, festivities to commemorate the date took place on 21 December 2012 in the countries that were part of the Maya civilization (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), with main events at Chichén Itzá in Mexico, and Tikal in Guatemala.Various astronomical alignments and numerological formulae were proposed as pertaining to this date. A New Age interpretation held that the date marked the start of a period during which Earth and its inhabitants would undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 21 December 2012 would mark the beginning of a new era. Others suggested that the date marked the end of the world or a similar catastrophe. Scenarios suggested for the end of the world included the arrival of the next solar maximum, an interaction between Earth and the black hole at the center of the galaxy, or Earth's collision with a mythical planet called Nibiru.
Scholars from various disciplines quickly dismissed predictions of concomitant cataclysmic events as they arose. Professional Mayanist scholars stated that no extant classic Maya accounts forecast impending doom, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in 2012 misrepresented Maya history and culture, while astronomers rejected the various proposed doomsday scenarios as pseudoscience, easily refuted by elementary astronomical observations.
19th century
The 19th century was the century marked by the collapse of the Spanish, First and Second French, Chinese, Holy Roman and Mughal empires. This paved the way for the growing influence of the British Empire, the Russian Empire, the United States, the German Empire, the Second French Colonial Empire and the Empire of Japan.
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