{"id":2117,"date":"2021-08-01T14:08:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T13:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T14:43:36","slug":"xilonen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/cabinet\/artificialia\/xilonen\/","title":{"rendered":"XILONEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander von Humboldt\u2019s <em>Vues des cordill\u00e8res et monuments des peuples indig\u00e8nes de l\u2019Am\u00e9rique<\/em> opens with an engraving of the sculpture of an \u2018Aztec priestess\u2019 which Humboldt saw in the collection of Guillermo Dupaix during his residence in Mexico City in 1803. Humboldt maintained that ancient civilizations in the Americas were of Oriental \u2018style\u2019 if not origins. He was struck by the apparent resemblance between the headdress of the Aztec priestess and those embedded in the capitals of the columns at the Temple of Hathor at Dendera in Egypt, which Humboldt glimpsed in Vivant Denon\u2019s <em>Voyage dans la basse et la haute \u00c9gypte<\/em>.<br \/>\nThe circulation and display of ancient Egyptian and Mexican objects at the Louvre, the British Museum or the Royal Cabinet of Natural History in Madrid, made them increasingly accessible for comparative study, where they served as an index of the \u2018stage of civilisation\u2019 reached by non-European peoples. Some Mexican intellectuals such as Jos\u00e9 Fernando Ram\u00edrez, director of the National Museum of Mexico, firmly maintained that Mexico\u2019s ancient past belonged to Mexico. He remained a staunch and mordant critic of all foreign origin theories in the Americas and called for more locally sensitive approaches to the study of Mexico\u2019s past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander von Humboldt\u2019s Vues des cordill\u00e8res et monuments des peuples indig\u00e8nes de l\u2019Am\u00e9rique opens with an engraving of the sculpture of an \u2018Aztec priestess\u2019 which Humboldt saw in the collection of Guillermo Dupaix during his residence in Mexico City in 1803. Humboldt maintained that ancient civilizations in the Americas were of Oriental \u2018style\u2019 if not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificialia","tag-xilnen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3941,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/3941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}