Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 49/50, Spring/Autumn 2006

Edited by Francesco Pellizzi

    The destruction of images in Teotihuacan: Anthropomorphic sculpture, elite cults, and the end of a civilization
    Leonardo López Luján, Laura Filloy Nadal, Barbara Fash, William L. Fash and Pilar Hernández

    The stars of the Palenque sarcophagus
    Osvaldo Chinchilla

    On aesthetic condensation in the Mexican colonial graffiti of Actopan, 1629
    Alessandra Russo

    Uneasy reflections: Images of Venice and Tenochtitlan in Benedetto Bordone's Isolario
    David Y. Kim

    What's in a Dogon mask
    Polly Richards

    The unfunctioning baby and other spectacular departures from the human in Yoruba visual culture
    David Doris

    The torchlight visit: Guiding the eye through the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century antique sculpture galleries
    Claudia Mattos

    Countermagical Combinations by Dosso Dossi
    Christopher Wood

    The democratic Campidoglio: Ritual, social unrest, and a case of wizardry
    Charles Burroughs

    Lectures, Documents and Discussions Anachronism and simulation in Renaissance architectural theory
    Anne-Marie Sankovitch

    The improbable dimension
    Raviv Ganchrow
    Commentary by Remo Guidieri

    The 'Kulturbolschewiken' II: Fluxus, Khruschev, and the 'concretist society'
    Cuauhtémoc Medina

    Learning from New Orleans: Ruins and involution
    Wes Wallace

    Post-scriptum
    Aoife Naughton

    Trends in New Orleans Psychogeography

    Unforgiving Art, Unforgivable Nations
    Robert Hullot-Kentor

    Amulets
    Fred Will

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Francesco Pellizzi is Associate of Middle American Ethnology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. He is also Chair of the University Seminar on the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Columbia University, and Senior Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University.