Word: aztec
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Onlookers in Harvard Square were treated to rare sights and sounds last night when a man in full Aztec warrior regalia, accompanied by an Aztec female dancer and another woman holding incense, led a procession of people wearing skeleton masks toward Andover Chapel at the Divinity School...
...festival is an amalgam of an ancient Aztec ceremony celebrating the death of emperors, and All Saints' Day, which was brought to the Americas with the Spanish conquistadors...
...Aztec dancer Raul Ruiz, a third-year student at the Medical School, defined the concept behind the festivities in more mystical terms, going back to the idea that the festival blurs the line between life and death...
Readings in the substantially weighty sourcebook include articles on Taiwanese folk healers, Aztec religion, African divinity systems, the doctor-patient relationship, American medical ethics and the assumptions inherent to Western medicine...
...historians and archaeologists agree, however, that the Olmec produced the earliest sophisticated art in Mesoamerica and that their distinctive style provided a model for the Maya, Aztec and other later civilizations in the region. According to Joralemon, small-scale Olmec objects made prior to 900 B.C. tend to be ceramic, whereas later pieces were often fashioned of jade and serpentine, rare materials that required great skill to carve. The vast majority of Olmec artifacts are sculptures--figurines, decorated stone stelae, votive axes, altars and the like--some of which were polished to a mirror-like shine...