Emily G Umberger

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Chapters

• Umberger, E. G. (2014). Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli: Political Dimensions of Aztec Deities. In Tezcatlipoca, Trickster and Supreme Deity(pp 83-112). Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado Press.
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  In this article I argue that Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god, appeared in Aztec art (and presumably in his high position in the Aztec World) as late as 1461. I argue this with evidence from the Aztec Calendar, Colonial pictorial and historical manuscripts, and other sculptures and monuments.
• Umberger, E. G. (2012). Chapter 62: Art in the Aztec Empire. In The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology. Oxford University Press.
• Umberger, E. G. (2011). Chapter 61: Art in the Aztec Empire. In Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Archaeology(pp 21 pages). Oxford University Press.
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  encylcopedia edited by Deborah Nichols and Christopher Pool
• Umberger, E. G. (2011). Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli: Political Dimensions of Aztec Deities. In Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Aztec Deity(pp 40 pages without bibliography and illustrations). University Press of Colorado, Niwot.
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  book edited by Elizabeth Baquedano
• Umberger, E. G. (2010). A Reconsideration of Some Hieroglyphs on the Mexica Calendar Stone. In The Aztec Calendar Stone(pp 238-257). Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
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  book edited by Khristaan D. Villela and Mary Ellen Miller
• Umberger, E. G. (2010). Art in the Aztec Empire. In Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology, edited by Deborah Nichols and Christopher Pool(pp 10 pages plus bibliography and figures). Oxford University Press.
• Umberger, E. G. (2010). Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli: Political Dimensions of Aztec Deities. In Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Aztec Deity, edited by Elizabeth Baquedano(pp 40 pages plus bibliography and figures). University Press of Colorado, Niwot (it seems).

Journals/Publications

• Umberger, E. G. (2010). Montezuma's Throne. ARARA 8.
• Umberger, E. G. (2010). Renaissance and Enlightenment Views of Two Aztec Sacrificial Stones. Source: Notes in the History of Art, Vol. XXIX, no. 3, 18-26.
• Umberger, E. G. (2010). Response: Reflections on Reflections. Art Bulletin, 54-57, vol. XCII, nos. 1-2.
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  Francesca Bavuso
• Umberger, E. G. (2001). Review of Bernard Fontana, A Gift of Angels: The Art of Mission San Xavier del Bac. Colonial Latin American Review (journal).

Presentations

• Umberger, E. G. (2015, April). Aztec Warrior Regalia and Questions of Inalienable Possessions, Symposium: The Aztecs and Their World: Interdisciplinary Contributions of Frances Berdan. Society of American Anthropology, 80th Annual Meeting. San Francisco: Society of American Anthropology,.
• Umberger, E. G. (2014, April). The Recording of Aztec History on Stone Monuments. Recording Cultures Workshop, at Oxford University, England, for Defining the Global Middle Ages, a group of historians from British universities who are working on a book on the subject. History Faculty, University of Oxford, Oxford, England: History Faculty, Oxford University.
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  I was invited to speak as an international guest chosen for that particular workshop. They wanted someone to speak of non-Euro/American notions of history and how history can be reconstructed with art and archaeological sources.I was the only international speaker, and my trip was paid for by some grant that they had received (I don't know the source).
• Umberger, E. G. (2013, Sept 27). Aztec Sculptures of Birth Giving Women. Dumbarton Oaks Workshop on the Figure of Tlazolteotl. Dumbarton Oaks, Center for Precolumbian Studies, Washington, DC.
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  The papers may be published by Dumbarton Oaks
• Umberger, E. G. (2013, September 12). Mapping Aztec Events: Monuments, the Landscape, and the Politics of Water. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. New Orleans: American Society for Ethnohistory.
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  Session: Beside the Lake: Pictorial Accounts for the Basin of Mexico, Elizabeth Boone, Chair
• Umberger, E. G. (2012, Spring). Commentary for CAA Panel: About Time. College Art Association Annual Meeting, LA, 2012. Los Angeles.
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  Individual Presenter
• Umberger, E. G. (2010, Spring). Imperial Art in Provincial Places. symposium in connection with exhibition, The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire, organized by Claire Lyons and John Pohl. J. Paul Getty Museum (Villa, Malibu).
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  Panel Speaker
• Umberger, E. G. (2010, Spring). The Later Lives of Two Aztec Sacrificial Stones. ALAA Session: Between/Beyond Text-Image: Engaging Visual Culture in Mesoamerica and South America, College Art Association, Annual Meeting. Chicago.
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  Panel Speaker
• Umberger, E. G. (2001, February 22). Commentary for CAA Panel: About Time. College Art Association Annual Meeting, LA, 2012. Los Angeles.

Reviews

• Umberger, E. G. (2013. Review of A Gift of Angels by Bernard Fontana(pp 149-151). Colonial Latin American Review.
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  book on San Xavier del Bac
• Umberger, E. G. (2012. Review of Bernard Fontana, A Gift of Angels: The Art of Mission San Xavier del Bac. Colonial Latin American Review (journal).

Others

• Umberger, E. G. (2015, September). My contribution: Commodities and Noncommodities in Aztec Art. 5-day workshop on the Aztec Empire at the Amerind Foundation sponsored by the Foundation.
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  This was a workshop of 9 scholars to plan a book on economics in the Aztec empire to be published by the University of Arizona Press, based on a Society of American Anthropology session, chosen for the honor by the Amerind Foundation

Creative Works

• Chapter 62: Art in the Aztec Empire; Oxford University Press; March; The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology; I guess it was reviewed.  I was invited to write the chapter