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Amara Solari,
Assistant Professor of Art History and Dir. of Undergraduate Studies;
Ph.D. Univ. of California,
Santa Barbara.
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E-mail: asolari@binghamton.edu
Office: FA 343A
Phone: (607) 777-3810
Office Hours: tba
Specialization: Pre-Columbian and colonial art history, spatial theory of Mesoamerica; Maya colonial history and ethnohistory; indigenous cartographic systems; ancient Mexican collecting practices.
Amara L. Solari’s research examines how indigenous ideologies of space and memory affected Franciscan evangelical practices enacted in sixteenth-century Yukatan. She elucidates this subject by examining multiple arenas of colonial Maya cultural production, including native literature, cartography, urban design and ritual performances. Central to Amara’s research is the translation and linguistic analysis of Maya textual sources such as the Chilam Balam of Chumayel, a manuscript that records colonial period transcriptions of pre-contact hieroglyphic texts. Amara illustrates her theoretical inquiries by utilizing the Franciscan/Maya colonial city of Itzamal as a case study due to its remarkable visual and cultural hybridity that actively preserved indigenous knowledge and memory in the face of forced conquest and Hispanization.
