[Aztlan] Aztlan Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1

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Mario - 
I am familiar with a South American lute type instrument made from an armadillo skin/shell, a charango. Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charango. Are the two instruments related in origins? We just had a fellow give a concert using one, and he explained about their origin in Bolivia.
Mark Cheney



 EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOODJoin meFrom: aztlan-request at lists.famsi.orgSubject: Aztlan Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1To: aztlan at lists.famsi.orgDate: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 12:00:03 -0600Send Aztlan mailing list submissions to	aztlan at lists.famsi.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit	http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/aztlanor, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to	aztlan-request at lists.famsi.org You can reach the person managing the list at	aztlan-owner at lists.famsi.org When replying, please change the Subject line of your email to matchthe exact topic being discussed, and delete all but the most importanttext from previous messages.--Forwarded Message Attachment--From: brog_pa at yahoo.comSubject: Re: [Aztlan] Perspectivism in MesoamericaDate: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:47:37 -0800To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org Although this particular thread is a bit old, I just wanted to let you knowthat I have recently written extensively on the subject of the reception ofperspectivism in Mesoamerica on my blog. You can go to:www.salul.wordpress.com and consult under the subject Mesoamerica to see theinfo I pasted there in respect of Viveiros's recent visit to Mexico, andsome of the scholarship that is being carried out here. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Perspectivism-in-Mesoamerica-tp12565797p21234019.htmlSent from the Pre-Columbian Cultures & Language mailing list archive at Nabble.com.  --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: michaelruggeri at mac.comSubject: [Aztlan] Ancient Americas January Lectures and ConferencesDate: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:34:27 -0600To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org January 6, 2009, 7:00 PMOregon Archaeological Society Lecture"Dennis Jenkins on the Paisley Cave"Oregon Museum of Science and Industry1945 SE Water StreetPortland, Oregonhttp://www.oregonarchaeological.org/events.htm  Wednesday, January 7, 7:30 PM"Tim's Cave: The discovery of three large, intact Sinaguan clay pots  in a cave near Sedona"Pueblo Grande MuseumPhoenix, Arizonahttp://www.ci.phoenix.az.us/PUEBLO/edcalndr.html  January 8, 2009, 7:30 PMPacific Coast Archaeological Society Lecture"Mineral Pigments of California Indians"Irvine Ranch Water District,15600 Sand Canyon Avenue(between the I-5 and I-405, next to the Post Office)Irvine, Californiahttp://www.pcas.org/meetings.html  Friday January 9th, 7:00 PMPre-Columbian Society of Washington DC LectureFriday January 9th, 7:00 PMPre-Columbian Society of Washington DC Lecture"An Archaeological Perspective on the Inca Provincial Administration  from the South Central Andes"Veronica Williams of the Institute of Archaeology, University of  Buenos Aires.2008 Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks"In this lecture, Dr. Williams will offer a general view on the  expansion of the Inca state towards the south of Cusco, which  comprises the sub-area of the western valleys of the south central  Andes and northwestern Argentina. She posits that, contrary to  previous research, the Inca state had a strong political, economic,  and ideological intervention in the study area. Available  archaeological evidence suggests that Inca state intervention was far  from being indirect. One of the motives for that intervention was the  need to gain access to economic resources of the Pacific Coast (animal  feces, minerals), coastal valleys (subtropical agriculture), pre- mountain range valleys (maize and potato farming, metallurgy), puna  (animal husbandry, tubers, salt, and obsidian) and eastern yungas  (feathers, coca, cebil, wood, honey, etc.). In this context, Dr.  Williams will describe different state installations meant to  administrate and control those territories. These state installations  include infrastructure like tambos, administrative centers, roads,  apachetas, qollcas, and ceremonial places (wak'as, shrines). She will  also analyze portable objects such as ceramics, metals, textiles, and  lapidary in the context of political organization of the state. Dr.  Williams' interest focuses on power strategies used by the Inca state  to control and administrate previously mentioned territories. However,  an interregional comparative study shows considerable differences of  material expressions of state administration, which are interpreted as  different levels of intensification in the operation and working of  power and administration structures.About the Speaker: Dr. Verónica I. Williams is Researcher, National  Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina/  Institute of Archaeology, and Facultad, Filosofía y Letras,  Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a 2008  Fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.Sumner School,1201 17th Street, NW,17th and M Streets, across the street from National Geographic. Metro:  Farragut North (on the red line) and Farragut West (on the Blue/Orange  line).Washington, DC.http://www.pcswdc.org/  January 9-10, 2009Institute of Andean Studies 49th ConferenceUniversity of California-Berkeley(510) 525-7816mwf at uclink.berkeley.edu .http://www.instituteofandeanstudies.net/  January 15, 2009, 7:30 PMArizona Archaeological and Historical Society Lecture"Rock Art of the Lower Pecos Region"Duval Auditorium,University Medical Center,1501 North Campbell Avenue (north of Speedway).Tucson, Arizonahttp://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/lectures.shtml  January 17-18, 2009"3rd Braunstein Symposium on Figurines"SATURDAY, January 17, 20098:30 am to 9:00 am Registration9:00 am to 9:30 am Opening Ceremonies9:30 am to 11:30 amPam Miller (College of Eastern Utah)Fremont Figurines of Utah with a Special Emphasis on the Pilling  FigurinesKelley Hays-Gilpin (Northern Arizona University)Three Figurine Traditions in Northern Arizona and New Mexico: Gender andGestures11:30 am to 12:00 am Break12:00 am to 1:00 pm Christine VanPool (University of Missouri)Women of the Sun: Southwestern Effigies and the Cosmology of Feminity1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Lunch – served in exhibit hall2:00 pm to 4:00 pmKata Faust (University of California, Riverside )Effigy Head Vessels and Celestial Symbolism in Ancient Huastec Art and  ThoughtRosemary A. Joyce (University of California, Berkeley)Patterns of Identity: Group Membership in Honduran Formative Figurines4:00 pm to 4:30 pm Break4:30 pm to 6:30 pmJulia Hendon (Gettysburg College)The Marriage Figurines of Western Honduras:  Style, Context, and MeaningAnn Cyphers (National Autonomous University of Mexico)Face to Face, Head to Head: Exploring the Significance of Olmec  Figurines6:30 pm to 8:00 pm Evening ReceptionSUNDAY, January 18, 20098:30 am to 11:30 amJohn E. Clark (Brigham Young University)Covering their Nakedness: Early Mesoamerican Figurines and ClothingGerardo Gutiérrez (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores enAntropología Social)An Exploration of Nahualism and an Olmec Transformation Figurine fromGuerrero, MexicoErin Sears (University of Kentucky, Lexington)The High Road or the Low Road?: Late Classic Maya Figurines within the  AltaVerapaz-Petén regions, Guatemala11:30 am to 12:00 am Break12:00 am to 1:00 pm Lisa Overholtzer (Northwestern University)Molding Materiality and Producing Place: The Life Histories of Ceramic  Figurines aPostclassic Xaltocan, Mexico1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Lunch – served in exhibit hall2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Symposium wrap-upUNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum4505 Maryland ParkwayLas Vegas, NVhttp://hrc.nevada.edu/museum/Calendar/index.html  Monday, January 19, 2009, 7:30 PMAIA LectureNorman Hammond, Boston University"Exploring La Milpa, a Classic Maya City in Belize"Courtyard by Marriott,Santa Fe, New Mexicohttp://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10124&society_code=all  January 26, 6:00 PMSouthwest Seminars Lecture"Beauty in Daily Life; Portable Art of the Ancient SouthwestDr. Eric BlinmanHotel Santa Fe1501 Paseo de PeraltaSanta Fe, New Mexicohttp://southwestseminars.org/SouthwestSeminars.org/Voices_in_Stone_2009.html   Mike Ruggeri   Mike Ruggeri's Ancient America Museum Exhibitions, Conferences and  Lectureshttp://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmerica/             --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: micc2 at cox.netSubject: [Aztlan] request for info regarding indigenous instrument makers in Mexican colonial periodDate: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:06:06 -0800To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org; nahuatl at lists.famsi.orgHello everyone HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!! I have a request for your help.I am currently working on my dissertation entitled:  /The Influence of the Danza Azteca Tradition of Central Mexico on Chicano-Mexcoehuani Identity and Sacred Space/I am currently working on the section on how the indigenous people of Mexico circa 1521- 1700 began to manufacture European musical instruments, specifically the guitar and mandolins types.I remember reading about how the royal authorities banned the indigenous people from making musical instrumentsbecause the Spanish and Criollo instrument makers were having a hard time competing with the native manufacturers. I am exploringthe evolution of today's "/conchas"; /string instruments made out of armadillo shells that are used in La Danza Azteca/Conchera.I thought I had saved that article, but now I cannot find it. Does any one know of a source I can look for?  Thanks! Mario E. Aguilarwww.mexicayotl.org