Moche and the Archeology of Death: Connecting Narratives of a Fragmented History
Join us for a talk by Peruvian archaeologist and curator Luis A. Muro Ynoñán, as part of the Living Legacies series, presented in conjunction with the Fragmented Histories; Andean Art Before 1600 exhibition.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Luis A. Muro Ynoñán (PhD, Stanford University) is a Peruvian archaeologist specializing in the archaeology and heritage of the North Coast of Peru. He is currently Assistant Curator of South American Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History and a Lecturer in Archaeology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima. Before joining the Field Museum as a curator, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), a Postdoctoral Scientist at the Field Museum, and a Pre-Columbian Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks. His broad theoretical interests include the study of ancient Moche religion, performance, and politics, as well as heritage ethics, cultural rights, and decoloniality in archaeology. Over the past 15 years, he has led multiple archaeological programs in North Coast of Peru. He is currently the director of the Zaña Cultural Landscape Archaeological Program in Lambayeque, Peru, a multidisciplinary project the study the emergence of pre-Hispanic religious monumental architecture in relationships to changes in the environment and ecology.
Co-presented with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS).
**Parking nearby is free after 5 pm and on weekends.**
The Fragmented Histories project was made possible with support from the University of Illinois Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Arts and Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom, the Helen Frankenthaler Climate Initiative of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the National Resource Center for the US Department of Education, the Rosann Gelvin Noel Krannert Art Museum Fund, and M.H. Carragher Memorial Fund.
Krannert Art Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
