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This issue reconstructs the integrated roles of real and symbolic
birds and their feathers in ancient and colonial Mesoamerican and
trans-Atlantic societies. The contributors-who include biologists,
historians, and art historians-combine ethnohistoric methodologies
with the physical sciences to analyze pictorial and native-language
sources, archival documents, chronicles, feather artworks, and
specimens in natural history collections. Contributors explore the
semiotics of feathers, highly valued as part of local and imperial
economies, in ritual regalia and featherworks. The issue also sheds
light on how the shipment of indigenous featherworks and actual
birds-both living and stuffed-brought American birds and indigenous
knowledge of them into contact with Europe. By foregrounding
indigenous knowledge and value systems, the contributors reexamine
the significance of birds and feathers in constructions of the
natural world, philosophy and religion, society and economics, and
artistic practice. Contributors: Allison Caplan, Martha Few, Leon
Garcia Garagarza, James Maley, John McCormack, Iris Montero
Sobrevilla, Lisa Sousa
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