Thursday, June 12, 2014

From Axis Mundi to Mappa Mundi: Great Temples and Sacred Bundles in Aztec Society: the 2014 Divinity School Alumnus of the Year lecture, by Davíd Carrasco

Via the University of Chicago alumni newsletter:
From Axis Mundi to Mappa Mundi: Great Temples and Sacred Bundles in Aztec Society: the 2014 Divinity School Alumnus of the Year lecture, by Davíd Carrasco.
Davíd Carrasco (ThM 1970, MA 1974, PhD in the History of Religions area, 1977) as the Divinity School's Alumnus of the Year for 2014. Carrasco is the Neil Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard Divinity School. A famed scholar, lecturer, writer, filmmaker, and expert on Mexican and Mesoamerican art and culture, he is a historian of religions with a particular interest in religious dimensions in human experience
Recorded in Swift Hall on April 24, 2014.

Watch here.