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A Ceramic Vessel of Unknown Provenance in Bonn
Prager, Christian M.; Gronemeyer, Sven; Wagner, Elisabeth (2015-01-05)This initial epigraphic note by the members of the "Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan" project is dedicated to text and image of a hitherto unpublished ceramic vessel that is on display in the Bonner ... -
A Possible Logograph XAN “Palm” in Maya Writing
Prager, Christian M.; Wagner, Elisabeth (2016-11-17)This epigraphic note explores the idea that Maya scribes invented and used a sign for “palm, guano” in their writing system. Epigraphic and linguistic data strongly support our hypothesis that the graph A27 renders the ... -
A Preliminary Inventory of the Karl Herbert Mayer Photographic Collection, Graz
Prager, Christian M. (2014-12-08)The present report is concerned with the project’s efforts to digitize the photographic archive of Karl Herbert Mayer, Graz (Austria), and to integrate it into the project’s digital archive of Maya inscriptions. -
A Preliminary Ruling Sequence of Cobá, Quintana Roo
Gronemeyer, Sven (2004)Within this note, I will make the attempt to establish a preliminary dynastic sequence for Cobá. Unfortunately, no key expressions for the demarcation of distinctive rulers can definitely be made out in the texts, such as ... -
“El amor al arte necesita fondos para que funcione”: Dinámica Artístico-Económica entre los Productores de Eventos en la Escena Musical Electrónica de Posadas, Misiones, Argentina
Fank Ríos, Ricardo Aníbal (2023)Based on an empirical investigation of the “electronic music scene” of the capital city of a peripheral province in Argentina, I try to contribute to an anthropological definition of the “event producer” as an economic ... -
Annual Report for 2014
Prager, Christian M.; Diederichs, Katja; Gronemeyer, Sven; Wagner, Elisabeth; Brodhun, Maximilian; Diehr, Franziska; Maier, Petra; Grube, Nikolai (2014-12-19)The incompletely deciphered hieroglyphic script and language of the Maya constitutes the primary focus of the research project under discussion here, which is being carried out cooperatively by the Universities of Bonn and ... -
Annual Report for 2015
Grube, Nikolai; Prager, Christian M.; Diederichs, Katja; Gronemeyer, Sven; Wagner, Elisabeth; Brodhun, Maximilian; Diehr, Franziska (2016-03-29)The only partially deciphered Maya hieroglyphic script and language constitute the primary focus of this research project, which has been carried out cooperatively by the University of Bonn and the Göttingen State and ... -
Avocado-Toast and Drug Cartels: Superfood Production and its consumption in Germany
Tuitjer, Friederike (2023)In recent years many Latin-American foods have become popular globally as “superfoods”. This article analyses the popular discourse in Germany (ca. 2015-2019) and its ambiguities around one of them: Avocado. On the one ... -
Beobachtungen zur possessiven Morphologie von Glyphe F
Gronemeyer, Sven (2003)Vorliegende Notiz beschäftigt sich mit den Flexionsaffixen von Glyphe F, die zusammen mit Glyphe G die in der Literatur so bezeichneten "Neun Herren der Nacht" benennt (Thompson 1950: 208). -
Beyond the history of ethnographic collections: A complex approach to the Cora objects gathered by Konrad Theodor Preuss in view of a restitution process
Valdovinos, Margarita (2022)Nowadays, anthropology museums debate between keeping or restituting objects. Through the study of the Cora ethnographic collection obtained by Konrad Theodor Preuss in Mexico (1906), today preserved in the Ethnologisches ... -
Colaboración y descolonización en los museos: Reflexiones a partir de tres experiencias indígenas amazónicas
Tagliati Souza, Taynã (2022)La museología equilibra un pasado colonialista y logocéntrico con un presente en el que los grandes debates descoloniales están a la orden del día. Los trabajos e investigaciones colaborativas se han vuelto casi mandatorios ... -
De “microcosmos” a actor principal del cambio en el rock argentino: Veinte años de usos del indie en Buenos Aires desde una perspectiva etnográfica e histórica
Boix, Ornela (2023)En este trabajo mostramos cómo el indie se convierte en una referencia central de la música popular argentina en las primeras dos décadas del siglo XXI. Desde una estrategia metodológica que combina datos etnográficos y ... -
“Es el amor un ratoncito”: Una aproximación a la tonadilla en el Perú del siglo XVIII (un género musical rebelde al ideal ilustrado)
Torres Arancivia, Eduardo (2023)In Peruvian´s music history, the Tonadilla, as a musical genre, has not been approached with the required Depth. The Tonadilla is an orchestrated song with a humorous theme waswidely used in theatrical plays in Spain and ... -
Espacios en disputa: Museos nacionales en el Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia
Rattunde, Naomi (2022)The reconstitution of Bolivia as a Plurinational State in 2009 had significant consequences for the Bolivian nation’s imagination as pluri-nation. It also had repercussions on the national museums, which are potent spaces ... -
Evaluating the Digital Documentation Process from 3D Scan to Drawing
Gronemeyer, Sven; Prager, Christian M.; Wagner, Elisabeth (2015-04-17)The "Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan" project acquired a Breuckmann smartSCAN C5 structured-light scanner for high-resolution and three-dimensional documentation of Maya artefacts with inscriptions. Renderings ... -
Filling the Grid? More Evidence for the <t’a> Syllabogram
Gronemeyer, Sven (2016-09-07)This epigraphic note reviews David Stuart’s proposal for a t’a syllabogram and enriches the evidence for his reading by providing more examples in different productive contexts. -
From “Bronze Rooster” to Ekeko: Impulses toward Ethnological Provenance Research in University Collections and Museums
Montero Fayad, Verónica; Ballestero, Diego; Rattunde, Naomi; Hoffmann, Beatrix; Jaimes Betancourt, Carla; Künne, Martin; Mackenbach, Werner; Dolz, Silvia; Fründt, Sarah; Grana-Behrens, Daniel; Noack, Karoline (2020-11-20)This volume is an anthology from the roundtable Vom „Bronzehahn“ bis zum Ekeko ─ Impulse für eine ethnologische Provenienzforschung in universitären Sammlungen und Museen (From “Bronze Rooster“ to Ekeko ─ Impulses toward ... -
Glyphs G and F: Identified as Aspects of the Maize God
Gronemeyer, Sven (2006)Consequently, though many single signs of each G-Glyph have been deciphered in the last decades in other contexts, no attempt was undertaken to re-apply these readings to the G-Glyphs and to make a critical review of the ... -
Historical Implications of the Early Classic Hieroglyphic Text CPN 3033 on the Sculptured Step of Structure 10L 11-Sub-12 at Copan
Prager, Christian M.; Wagner, Elisabeth (2017-08-31)This paper examines the hieroglyphic text carved on an Early Classic hieroglyphic step found in 1935 in Copan Structure 10L-11-Sub-12. -
Huellas de identidad en la danza Choqela: (Puno, Perú)
Gudemos, Mónica; Apaza Ticona, Jorge (2023)In this paper we address the polysemic nets of identity appropriation of Aimara dances in Puno (Peru). We analyze the tense relationship established between the discourses installed by the structures of political power ...