Native American & Indigenous Studies at PennWednesday, February 1, 2017 - 6:00pm
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Dr. Simon Martin, Associate Curator, American Section, Penn Museum
The Maya universe was populated by a variety of strange beasts and hybrid entities, some as actors in mythic narratives, others as symbolic representations of the sky, earth, and netherworld. However bizarre and complex their form, each had a coherent part to play in a wider religious system. One of the more energetic areas in Maya studies today is the effort to fathom their meanings and, by doing so, enter the imagination and consciousness of an ancient American people.
See the Penn Museum website for more information on the Great Beasts of Legend Lecture Series.
Admission to the nine lecture series subscription:
$40 ($15 Penn Museum members); $5 single lecture advance ticket ($2 Penn Museum members); $10 at the door.