Karl Taube
Karl Andreas Taube | |
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Born | September 14, 1957 |
Parent | Henry Taube |
Karl Andreas Taube (born September 14, 1957)
Family background
Karl Taube's father, Canadian-born
Education
Taube commenced his
Career
Field research undertaken during the course of his career include a number of assignments on archaeological, linguistic and ethnological projects conducted in the
Themes
Taube's two most important books are "The Major Gods of Ancient Yucatan" (1992) and "Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks" (2004). The former one restudied the Maya deities of the three codices and aligned them with the deities of the Classic Period. The two-part study of the
An early theme examined by Taube concerns the agricultural development and symbolism of Mesoamerica. A prime example of this is his 1983 presentation to the Fifth Palenque Round Table identifying the Maya maize god and resulting in one of his major articles (1985). Taube has also written on the symbolism and deity associations of maize for other cultures, particularly in his brilliant study of "Lightning Celts and Corn Fetishes" (2000) that connects Olmec maize symbolism with the American Southwest.
Underlying much of Taube's work is his interest in inter– and intra-regional exchanges and contacts between Mesoamerica,
Taube also researched the interactions between Teotihuacan, a dominant center in Mexico's plateau region during the Classic era of Mesoamerican chronology, and contemporary Maya polities.[2]
Following Taube's sixtieth birthday in 2017, his collected articles in Mesoamerican, especially Mayan, iconography have begun to appear with the Precolumbia Mesoweb Press and online.
In May 2023, Taube wrote about the repatriation of an important Olmec monument, an 'Earth monster', looted from the site of Chalcatzingo, Morelos, Mexico.[11]
In July 2023, Taube delivered a series of public lectures at the Institute of Archeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a lecture on Mesoamerican jade in the Forbidden City in Beijing, China.[12]
Notes
- ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF).
- ^ a b c d Board of Regents, UC (2006)
- ^ Shwartz (2005); see also Coe (1992, p.244).
- ^ "Taube, Henry (1915–2005)". University of Regina. Archived from the original on March 28, 2010. Retrieved August 30, 2010.
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- ^ Coe (1992, p.244).
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- ^ Miller & Taube 1993, p. [page needed].
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- ^ Taube, Karl (7 June 2023). "Aztec and Maya civilizations are household names – but it's the Olmecs who are the 'mother culture' of ancient Mesoamerica". The Conversation.[non-primary source needed]
- ^ "【讲座报道】玉在古代中美地区的象征意义——故宫研究院学术讲坛第一〇八讲、玉文化讲坛第十讲" [[Lecture Report] The symbolic significance of jade in ancient China and America - Lecture 108 of the Palace Museum Research Institute Academic Lecture and Lecture 10 of the Jade Culture Lecture] (in Chinese).
References
- Board of Regents, UC (2006). "Taube, Karl A". UC Riverside, Faculty Directory. Regents UC. Archived from the original on 2007-11-01. Retrieved 2007-01-11.
- OCLC 26605966.
- OCLC 27667317.
- Shwartz, Mark (November 17, 2005). "Henry Taube, recipient of Nobel Prize in chemistry, dead at 89". Stanford Report. Stanford University. Retrieved 2007-01-11.
- Taube, Karl (1985). "The Classic Maya Maize God: A Reappraisal" (PDF). In Virginia M. Fields (volume ed.) (ed.). Fifth Palenque Round Table, 1983. Merle Greene Robertson (general ed.) (Online publication:November 2003 ed.). Monterey, CA: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute. Retrieved 2007-01-12.
External links
- "Google Scholar Profile of Karl Taube". Google Scholar. 26 January 2023.
Archaeological tours
Taube leads educational journeys for Far Horizons Archaeological and Cultural trips
- Taube's tour page Karl Taube