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  • Codicological examination of the Mixtec codex Nuttall

    Codicological examination of the Mixtec codex Nuttall

    From 9 to 10 January 2023 Justyna Kowalczyk-Kądziela and Katarzyna Mikulska visited the British Museum in London, as part of the Subproject 1 on Mixtec visual narrative. They examined an original Mixtec codex Nuttall (Am1902,0308.1). The codex is a pre-Hispanic manuscript kept at the British Museum since the beginning of the 20th century. It has…

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  • Graphic Communication Beyond “Writing”

    Graphic Communication Beyond “Writing”

    Lecture series organized by the members of Amergraph team Social and Cultural Anthropology Today is a lecture series at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology in Marburg. It comprises various lectures that cover current issues and research activities in contemporary social and cultural anthropology. This winter semester edition titled Graphic Communication Beyond “Writing” is…

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  • Depot work at the Museum of World Cultures in Gothenburg

    Depot work at the Museum of World Cultures in Gothenburg

    From 20 to 23 October 2022 Ernst Halbmayer and Anne Goletz worked in the depot of the Museum of World Cultures (Världskulturmuseet) in Gothenburg, Sweden, as part of SP-3 on Yukpa Graphic Communication systems in Tio-tio writing and material culture. They examined and documented graphic elements on several hundred objects collected between 1914 and 1968 by Gustaf Bolinder and Lars…

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  • Second fieldwork done!

    Second fieldwork done!

    For the past three months (February-April), Karolina Juszczyk has been doing her fieldwork as part of SP-5, a study of rock art in northern Venezuela.

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  • First fieldwork done!

    First fieldwork done!

    Between February and March 2022, Justyna Kowalczyk-Kądziela carried out her first fieldwork in Mexico.

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  • We’re launching the website!  

    We’re launching the website!  

    On May 16, we had training on how to run and maintain our project website. So we are running with it! The website is still under construction, but there will be more and more material here from now on. We thank L’expertlab for creating this website! https://lexpertlab.pl/

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