All of the Maya cultures with which we are familiar, both past and present, appear to be preoccupied with the passage of time. Witness the extraordinary accomplishments of the ancient Maya in the development of a calendar system. Witness th…By the 25th of January, the bull has been killed; the Mayordomos have relinquished their stick-horses; the stuffed animals have been burned; the Jaguars, Plumed Serpents, and Spanish Moss Wearers have put away their costumes; and the Spanis…
Miguel León-Portilla
anthropologist · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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León-Portilla was a leading Mesoamerican scholar specializing in Aztec and Maya intellectual history and cosmology. The course readings invoke his work to ground discussions of non-Western temporal perception and cyclical time-consciousness, particularly as they relate to systems of order, repetition, and symbolic renewal in indigenous cultures. His scholarship enables an argument about how different civilizations encode understanding of time into ritual, calendar, and performance—concepts relevant to thinking through how AI systems and algorithmic processes similarly structure temporal experience and social order.
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