Raptors in Precolumbian North America: an Ontology of Art
My colleague Prof Robert J. Wallis edited a new collection of essays on the relationships between humans and birds of prey. His request...
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Max Carocci
- Jul 19
- 1 min
My latest (virtual) exhibition for the Royal Anthropological Institute
Imaging the Field: Sketches and Drawings from the RAI Archives Drawings, illustrations, and images have historically been, and still are...
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Max Carocci
- Jul 13
- 1 min
It's Out!! My new research on representations between art and anthropology
It got published in the end in Colonial Latin American Review. A labour of love on a topic that is dear to me. It is part of a longer...
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Max Carocci
- Jun 26
- 1 min
Representations of Europeans in Native North American Arts
This will be the topic of my intervention for the Summer School coordinated by Dr. Elizabeth Baquedano on Amerindian aesthetics which...
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Max Carocci
- Feb 16
- 2 min
Artistic Peripheries in Americanist Studies
The issue of cores and peripheries has plagued Americanist studies since the early developments in archaeology and anthropology. The...
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Max Carocci
- Jan 27
- 1 min
Amerindian Materialities
In this online symposium starting on Feb 1st, I will be in company of fellow Americanists to explore the multifaceted world of Amerindian...
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Max Carocci
- Nov 9, 2022
- 1 min
Phallic imagery in Plains Indian rock art, a new article by Max Carocci, in Time and Mind
Check the new issue of Time and Mind 2022 (15:2), where I discuss phallic iconography in Northern Plains Indian rock art. Abstract:...
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Max Carocci
- Sep 21, 2022
- 1 min
Precolumbian Arts and Civilisations: a New Course by Max Carocci!
Precolumbian Arts and Civilisations are the focus of a new course taught by Max Carocci starting online from October 5th 2022 for the...
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Max Carocci
- Jun 29, 2022
- 1 min
Yet another one! Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration
Max Carocci and Stephanie Pratt (eds) Bloomsbury, 2022 Gathered in this volume are some of the contributions to the panel ‘Art as...
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Max Carocci
- Mar 5, 2022
- 1 min
Art Shamanism and Animism is out!
Art Shamanism and Animism, Religions special issue has now been published as an edited collection. The volume gathers all the 12 original...
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Max Carocci
- Feb 2, 2022
- 2 min
Multiverse: Amerindian Visions
Common in Amerindian aesthetics are hybrid figures immersed and entangled in intricate backgrounds. One can appreciate these complex...
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Max Carocci
- Jan 16, 2022
- 2 min
Negative space a conditio sine qua non
Negative space in art is, by definition, the space not filled by any perceivable visual element. In most cases, it is not considered...
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Max Carocci
- Sep 26, 2021
- 2 min
Aniconism, anti-iconism, lack of iconicity?
While putting together a new course on non-Western visual arts I was struck, once again, by how much attention I give to the notion of...
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Max Carocci
- Sep 26, 2021
- 4 min
Reflections on ‘orphan collections’
Baja California Norte, ritual tablas, possibly Cochimi (© Museum of Us, San Diego)
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Max Carocci
- May 22, 2012
- 1 min
Subverting Jack the Ripper
A surreal take on the Jack the Ripper story, this immersive video created for the exhibition on Jack the Ripper at the Museum of...
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Max Carocci
- May 15, 2012
- 1 min
For my Land I Fight
Part of the travelling exhibition Warriors of the Plains, For My Land I Fight tells the story of Native American engagement with the US...
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Max Carocci
- May 21, 2010
- 1 min
Written Out of History: The Untold Legacy of Native American Slavery
This video was part of a research project on Native American slavery in memory of the abolition of the slave trade in England. The video...
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Max Carocci
- Apr 14, 2010
- 1 min
On the Traces of Pocahontas
Conceived to be part of the exhibition a New World, the video follows a delegation of Native American representatives to the British...
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