David Carrasco
American Mesoamericanist
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David Carrasco's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
- Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
- Bachelors Anthropology University of Colorado
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Davíd Lee Carrasco is an American academic historian of religion, anthropologist, and Mesoamericanist scholar. As of 2001, he holds the inaugural appointment as Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of Latin America Studies at the Harvard Divinity School, in a joint appointment with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. Carrasco previously taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder and Princeton University and is known for his research and publications on Mesoamerican religion and history, his public speaking as well as wider contributions within Latin American studies and Latino/a studies. He has made statements about Latino contributions to US democracy in public dialogues with Cornel West, Toni Morrison, and Samuel P. Huntington. His work is known primarily for his writings on the ways human societies orient themselves with sacred places.
David Carrasco's Published Works
Published Works
- The Conquest of America (1996) (135)
- Myth, Cosmic Terror, and the Templo Mayor (1987) (32)
- The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction (2011) (12)
- Sacrifice/Human Sacrifice in Religious Traditions (2013) (8)
- Templo mayor: The Aztec vision of place (1981) (4)
- The Paradox of Carnival (2014) (1)
- The Hermeneutics of Conquest (1988) (1)
- 2. Aztec foundations: Aztlan, cities, peoples (2011) (0)
- 8. The return of the Aztecs (2011) (0)
- What is Aztlán? (2018) (0)
- 6. Wordplay, philosophy, sculpture (2011) (0)
- Magically Flying With Toni Morrison (2014) (0)
- 4. Cosmovision and human sacrifice (2011) (0)
- The Making of a New History Called Mexico (2020) (0)
- Foreword: Complex Performance in Santiago Atitlan (2011) (0)
- Interview no. 154 (1973) (0)
- 1. The city of Tenochtitlan: center of the Aztec world (2011) (0)
- Interview no. 250 (1976) (0)
- The Conqueror and His Virgin (1979) (0)
- 7. The fall of the Aztec empire (2011) (0)
- A Defense Against Quine's Attack on Analyticity (1970) (0)
- 3. Aztec expansion through conquest and trade (2011) (0)
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