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

Title

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.

Author

Burtenshaw, Julia

Publication

Los Angeles, California : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; New York, New York : DelMonico Books/D.A.P., 2022.
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Description

343 pages : color illustrations, 1 color map; 30 cm

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.

Alternative Title

Universo en tus manos
Thought and splendor of Indigenous Colombia
Golden worlds, the portable universe of Indigenous Colombia.
Univers au creux des mains, pensées et splendeurs de la Colombie autochtone.

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Essays.
Illustrated works.

Note

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.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-332) and index.

Exhibitions (note)

"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.

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.

Call Number

JQF 22-1683

ISBN

9781636810225
1636810225

LCCN

2021944423

OCLC

1295405656

Author

Burtenshaw, Julia, author.

Title

Publisher

Los Angeles, California : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; New York, New York : DelMonico Books/D.A.P., 2022.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-332) and index.

Exhibitions

"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.

Place of Publication

United States California Los Angeles.

United States New York (State) New York.

Added Author

García Botero, Héctor, author.

Magaloni Kerpel, Diana, author.

Uribe Villegas, María Alicia, author.

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.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, organizer, host institution.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, host institution.

Museo del Oro (Banco de la República), organizer.

Added Title

Golden worlds, the portable universe of Indigenous Colombia.

Univers au creux des mains, pensées et splendeurs de la Colombie autochtone.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-1683

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