April 21–May 4, 2012

Invited speakers

Rebecca R. Stone, Art History Professor, Emory University

Lectures by Rebecca R. Stone

  • The Visionary Aesthetic in Early Andean Art: Trance Experience as Subject Matter in the Chavin and Nasca Styles
  • The Visionary Aesthetic in Later Andean Art: Trance Experience as Subject Matter in the Moche and Chancay Styles
  • How Shamanic were the Inka?: the Evidence from Friar Bernabe Cobo’s Inka Religion and Customs

Lectures by Luis Eduardo Luna

  • Art and Shamanism in the Work of Colombian Archeologist and Anthropologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff: Shamanic Motives in Goldwork in the Andes and Visionary Paintings i the Amazon. An Overview
  • Amerindian Art: Indications of a Radical Epistemology, Learning by Transformation
  • Indigenous and Contemporary Art Inspired by Psychointegrator Plants