Max Carocci

The Brazilian journal Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia (2025:14) has finally published my article on representations of European in...

It is with enormous pleasure that I announce the publication of my book Shamanism: The Visual Culture of Animism, Healing, and Journeys...

My chapter, Museum Studies, has now been published in The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Indigenous Religions a...

A Guest Blog by researcher Helen Earl Fraser Walking through the foundations of Akrotiri, a prehistoric ruin on Santorini, I was overcome...

October 23rd will mark the beginning of a new course I specifically tailored to the Royal Anthropological Institute's short course...

It is with great pleasure that I can announce the opening of the exhibition 'No Simple Word for Time: What is Truth?' featuring Native...

My colleague Prof Robert J. Wallis edited a new collection of essays on the relationships between humans and birds of prey. His request...

Imaging the Field: Sketches and Drawings from the RAI Archives Drawings, illustrations, and images have historically been, and still are...

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...

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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The issue of cores and peripheries has plagued Americanist studies since the early developments in archaeology and anthropology. The...

In this online symposium starting on Feb 1st, I will be in company of fellow Americanists to explore the multifaceted world of Amerindian...

Check the new issue of Time and Mind 2022 (15:2), where I discuss phallic iconography in Northern Plains Indian rock art. Abstract:...

Precolumbian Arts and Civilisations are the focus of a new course taught by Max Carocci starting online from October 5th 2022 for the...

Max Carocci and Stephanie Pratt (eds) Bloomsbury, 2022 Gathered in this volume are some of the contributions to the panel ‘Art as...

Art Shamanism and Animism, Religions special issue has now been published as an edited collection. The volume gathers all the 12 original...

Common in Amerindian aesthetics are hybrid figures immersed and entangled in intricate backgrounds. One can appreciate these complex...

Negative space in art is, by definition, the space not filled by any perceivable visual element. In most cases, it is not considered...