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Community College Humanities Review, 1999. INSTITUTION Community Coll DOCUMENT RESUME ED 455 872 JC 010 547 AUTHOR Scheper, George L., Ed. TITLE Community College Humanities Review, 1999. INSTITUTION Community Coll. Humanities Association. ISSN ISSN-0748-0741 PUB DATE 1999-00-00 NOTE 198p.; Published annually. PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT Community College Humanities Review; v20 n1 spec iss Fall 1999 EDRS PRICE MF01/PC08 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Community Colleges; Cultural Awareness; *Cultural Context; Cultural Differences; *Cultural Images; Cultural Influences; *Ethnic Groups; Foreign Countries; *Humanities; *Indigenous Populations; Intercultural Communication; Multicultural Education; Two Year Colleges; Western Civilization IDENTIFIERS Aztec Art; *Mexico; *National Endowment for the Humanities ABSTRACT This special issue of the Community College Humanities Review contains articles generated by National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institutes, held over several years. The institutes provided opportunities for academics from a variety of humanities disciplines and types of institutions to interact over an extended period of common study of topics associated with the encounters of European and indigenous cultures in the New World. The papers included are: (1) "Gender Relations and Political Legitimacy: Replacing Patrilineal with Ancestral Inheritance of Power in Ancient Mayan Society" (Lowell S. Gustafson); (2) "The Making of the Face and Heart: Notes on an Aztec Metaphor" (Paul Aviles) ; (3) "Image as Text in Post-Contact Mexican Books and Artifacts of Indigenous Origin" (George L. Scheper); (4) "Constructing Nature and Ordering Space/Spain and Mexico" (Mary Ruth Donnelly); (5) "Kiva in the Cloister" (Felix Heap); (6) "La Llorana: the Weeping Woman" (RoseAnna Mueller); (7) "The Liminal Space of Desire in the New Poetry of Alma Luz Villanueva" (Cesar A. Gonzalez-T.); (8) "Writing Shalako: The Anthropologist as Tourist, from Cushing to the Tedlocks" (Ron Denson); and (9)"Seriously Funny Native American Authors" Jacqulyn Kilpatrick. (NB) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. COMMUNITY COLLEGE HUMANITES REVIEW Vol. 20, No. 1, Fall 1999 1 Special Issue New World Cultural Studies Guest Editor and Institute Director: George L. Scheper U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. 0 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) rks 0 The place of Aztec origins: the seven caves of Aztlan Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, c. 1547-1560 Bibliothéque Nationale (Paris), MS 46-50, fol. 16r. CCHA BEST COPY AVAILABLE Articles from National Endowment for the Humanities Swinmer Institutes Sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association COMMUNITY COLLEGE HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION The Community College Humanities Association is a nonprofit national organization devoted to promoting the teaching and learning of the humanities in two-year colleges. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Members at Large: Division Presidents: David A. Berry, Chair Central Division: Essex County College Rick Bailey Newark, New Jersey Henry Ford Community College Dearborn, Michigan Constance Carroll, President San Diego Mesa College Eastern Division: San Diego, California Noel P. 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Submissions should focus Humanities Association. Its purposeon issues consistent with the pur- is to offer a forum for scholarlyposes of the journal and should be work which will provide readerssubmitted to the Editor through the with articles addressing issues ofCommunity College Humanities research, curriculum change, andAssociation office at Essex County developments within the humanitiesCollege. Submissions should con- disciplines. By this means, theform to the Review style. All will be Review contributes to the growthacknowledged, and authors will be and development of the communitynotified of the decision of the of humanities scholars nationally. Editorial Board. The Editor reserves the right to make changes not Managing Editor: affecting the substance of a submis- sion. Authors will receive three Ned M. Wilson, Ph.D. reprints of their articles. Additional Essex County College copies may be obtained from the Newark, New Jersey 07102 CCHA office upon request: include a check payable to CCHA for Editorial Board: $15.00 to cover costs. Myrna Goldenberg, Ph.D. Montgomery College CCHA wishes to acknowlege the Rockville, Maryland 20850 support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Pamela Benson Tarrant County Junior College, NE Hurst, Texas 76054 Published for CCHA by: Robert Sessions, Ph.D. Print Fast Kirkwood Community College Roselle, New Jersey Cedar Rapids, Iowa 54206 Mary Louise Shannon Florida Community College at Jacksonville Jacksonville, Florida 32256 Bill Florence Chemeketa Community College Salem, Oregon 97306 ISSN 0748-0741 ©Community College Humanities Association, 1999 5 Special Issue Fall 1999 New World Cultural Studies Articles from National Endowment for the Humanities Institutes sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association Guest Editor and Institute Director: George L. Scheper Articles in this volume were generated in connection with the following Summer Institutes funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities: "Center and Periphery in New Spain: 16th and 17th Century Spanish and Indigenous Cultures in Mexico and New Mexico" (1995 and 1998) "The Maya World in Guatemala, Chipas and Yucatan" (1997) David A. Berry Project Manager Executive Director Community College Humanities Association COMMUNITY COLLEGE HUMANITIES REVIEW SPECIAL ISSUE FALL 1999 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1Introduction: George L. Scheper 4 Gender Relations and Political Legitimacy: Replacing Patrilineal with Ancestral Inheritance of Power in Ancient Mayan Society Lowell S Gustafson 31 The Making of the Face and Heart: Notes on an Aztec Metaphor Paul Avilés 62 Image as Text in Post-Contact Mexican Books and Artifacts of Indigenous Origin George L. Scheper 104 Constructing Nature and Ordering Space/ Spain and Mexico Mary Ruth Donnelly 114 Kiva in the Cloister Felix Fleap 128 La Llorana: the Weeping Woman Rose Anna Mueller 135 The Liminal Space of Desire in the New Poetry of Alma Luz Villanueva Cesar A. González-T. 156 Writing Shalako: The Anthropologost as Tourist, from Cushing to the Ted locks Ron Denson 169 Seriously Funny Native American Authors Jacquelyn Kilpatrick 7 CONTRIBUTORS George L. Scheper, Director and Co-Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institutes, "Center and Periphery in New Spain: 16th and 17th Century Spanish and Indigenous Cultures in Mexico and New Mexico" (1995 and 1998), and "The Maya World in Guatemala, Chiapas and Yucatan" (1997), is Professor of Humanities and coordinator of the Aritf acts of Culture Interdisciplinary humanities program at The Community College of Baltimore CountyEssex, in Maryland. Paul Aviles, associate professor of English at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, New York, is a poet and translator, winner, of an Individual Artist's grant from the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and was a fellow in the "Center and Periphery" Institute in 1998. Ron Denson teaches in the Writing Program at Ithaca College, New York, and was a fellow in the "Center and Periphery" Insitiute in 1998. Mary Ruth Donnelly teaches literature and composition and has served as chair of Communication/Humanities at Belleville Area College in Illinois, and was a fellow in the "Center and Periphery" Institute in 1998. César A. Gonzalez-Trujillo, founding chair of Chicano Studies at San Diego Mesa College, is author of A Sense of Place: Rudolfo A. Anaya, An Annotated Bio-Bibliography. Lowell S. Gustafson, Associate Professor of Political Science at Villanova University, author of studies of the Falkland [Malvinas] sov- ereignty dispute, economic development in Latin America, and a forthcoming study of Thucydides' theory of international relations, was a fellow in the "Maya World" Institute in 1997. Felix Heap, a former Franciscan friar, is Professor of Art History at Boise State University, in Idaho, and was a fellow in the "Center and Periphery" Institute in 1998. 8 vi Jacquelyn Kilpatrick author of Celluloid Indians: Native Amercans and Film, teaches in the English Department of the
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