SEVERIN FOWLES: Shield-bearer, Mask-wearer, and the Politics of Images in Pueblo History
March 15, 2019
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
The Pueblo communities of the American Southwest underwent an artistic revolution during the fourteenth century CE, involving sharp increases in the quantity, complexity and iconicity of images produced from the Hopi Mesas to the Rio Grande valley. The most dramatic visual evidence of this revolution appears in an elaborate new tradition of painted murals within male ceremonial spaces, though it was also marked in more public media like rock art and ceramics. In this paper, I consider the historical sources of this revolution and the new political logics that came to govern, not just image production, but also the wearing of images by male priests and warriors during an age of widespread social transformation.
Co-sponsored with a generous contribution by UIC's Department of Anthropology.
Date posted
Feb 18, 2019
Date updated
Feb 19, 2019