Thesis Series: Cannibals and Codices

August 1, 2017

In the second installment of our Thesis Series, Jen discusses her research of Mesoamerican codices, the contemporary artist Enrique Chagoya, and the ultimate taboo -- human cannibalism *gasp*.

Sources 

Arens, William. The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy. New York: Oxford, 1979.

Boone, Elizabeth Hill and Walter D. Mignolo, eds. Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.

Boone, Elizabeth Hill. Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs. Austin: University of Austin Press, 2000.

Chagoya, Enrique. “Oral history interview with Enrique Chagoya.” Interview by Paul Karlstrom. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. July 25th-August 6th, 2001.

________. “A Lost Continent: Writings Without an Alphabet.” In The Road to Aztlán: Art from a Mythic Homeland. Exhibition catalogue. Virginia M. Fields and Victor Zamudio-Taylor, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001.

Gruzinski, Serge. Images at War. Translated by Heather MacLean. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.

Miller, Mary Ellen. The Art of Mesoamerica. London: Thames and Hudson, 1996.

Links

https://hyperallergic.com/10380/art-attacked-in-colorado-museum/

http://artinprint.org/article/visual-culture-of-the-nacirema-chagoyas-printed-codices/

http://articles.latimes.com/1993-02-02/entertainment/ca-1031_1_bleeding-heart.