Karl Andreas Taube

Karl Andreas Taube (born September 14, 1957 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American anthropologist , ethnologist , archaeologist and historian with a research focus on the Southwest of the United States and Mesoamerica .

Life

Wall painting in San Bartolo

Karl Taube is a son of the Nobel laureate in chemistry Henry Taube and, like him, attended Stanford University , where he graduated in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in anthropology. He then continued his studies at Yale University , graduating with a Masters in 1983 and a PhD in 1988 . Among his professors during his training were Floyd Lounsbury (1914–1998) and Michael D. Coe . He also met Mary Miller there , with whom he wrote the encyclopedia The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya in 1993 . issued.

Taube has undertaken numerous field research, for example in Chiapas , Central Mexico , Honduras and Guatemala as well as on the Yucatán , but also in Peru and Ecuador . He dealt in particular with the connections between corn cultivation and the religious symbolism associated with it. Another focus area is the intercultural exchange between the cultures in Mesoamerica, for example the influence of Teotihuacan on the classical period of the Mayan culture . In more recent research projects Taube has dealt with the iconography of Maya wall paintings and their interpretation in Guatemala, especially in San Bartolo.

He has been Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside since 2009 .

Publications

• The Classic Maya Maize God: A Reappraisal , 1985 ( PDF )
• The Albers collection of pre-Columbian art , 1988
• The major gods of ancient Yucatan , 1992
• Aztec and Mayan Myths , 1994
• Mythes aztèques et mayas , 1995
• Olmec art at Dumbarton Oaks , 2004

Web links

• Karl A. Taube on WorldCat Identities
• Karl A. Taube on the pages of the University of California, Riverside

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://ucriverside.academia.edu/KarlTaube/CurriculumVitae