{"id":75,"date":"2019-05-16T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T16:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/anth281-s19\/?p=75"},"modified":"2019-05-30T13:25:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T17:25:05","slug":"ella-smit-class-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/anth281-s19\/ella-smit-class-of-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Smit, Class of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Classic Maya Polychrome Vase with Anthropomorphic Coyote<br \/>\nfrom Campeche, Mexico<\/h3>\n<p>Virtual Exhibit Video<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LNd7s7refG8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>The Life-Force of Mayan Ceramics<\/h3>\n<p>The Maya civilization is a complex society with a host of ritual and aesthetic practices placed at the forefront of all mortal and supernatural relationships. This paper seeks to unpack these complexities and provide a glimpse into the proximate relationship of ceramics and spirituality. Through the research I have compiled on two Maya vessels held at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA)\u2013\u2013 one bearing the iconography of an anthropomorphic coyote, and the other petals of a flower\u2013\u2013 I will place the artistic aesthetics of these pieces in conversation with ritual practice. Ceramics provided a gateway into the realm of the mortal and supernatural, and I hope that, by and large, one is able to understand the awe-inducing influence these ritual practices leveraged on Maya society through these ceramics of the Classic period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/anth281-s19\/files\/2019\/05\/eSmitANTH281-finalpaperReduced.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the entire paper&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classic Maya Polychrome Vase with Anthropomorphic Coyote from Campeche, Mexico Virtual Exhibit Video The Life-Force of Mayan Ceramics The Maya civilization is a complex society with a host of ritual and aesthetic practices placed at the forefront of all mortal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/anth281-s19\/ella-smit-class-of-2021\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/anth281-s19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/anth281-s19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/anth281-s19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/anth281-s19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/anth281-s19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/anth281-s19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/anth281-s19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/anth281-s19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/anth281-s19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/anth281-s19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}