[talk] “Visions of Nature in Quechua and Mayan Literature” by Charles Pigott

[talk] “Visions of Nature in Quechua and Mayan Literature” by Charles Pigott (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday, October 18, 2016
6pm

Place: Cherpack Conference Room (Williams Hall 543, University of Pennsylvania)

Dr. Pigott’s research focuses on the indigenous cultures and languages of Latin America, particularly the oral and written literature of the Maya and Quechua. In view of the fact that such cultures often have very different interpretative frameworks to the ‘Western’ academic tradition, he combines the perspectives of several disciplines including literary studies, antropology, linguistics and philosophy, in order to attain a holistic understanding.

Even free and open to the public