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Arts Division
History of Art/Visual Culture
Distinguished Professor Emerita
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Latin American & Latino Studies
Anthropology Department
Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
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Archaeology
Art Theory
Epistemology
Cultural Studies
History of Art and Visual Culture
Indigenous Arts
Latin American and Latino Studies
Visual Arts
Visual Culture
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Cultural histories of the native Americas and colonial Latin America. Inka (Inca) visual and performance culture before and after Spanish colonization, 1400–1825 CE.
Carolyn Dean is interested in how the arts embed various, often-conflicting ontologies and how indigenous perspectives have been ignored, dismissed, and misconstrued from colonial times through the present. She has published numerous articles and two books: Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ (Duke University Press, 1999) and A Culture of Stone (Duke University Press, 2010); her third book, Absence of Images: Inside Inka Abstraction, is currently in press.
2025 Inside Abstraction: Interpreting Inka Visual Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press. Publication date, September 2025.
2010 A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock. Durham: Duke University Press.
2003 Los Cuerpos de los Incas y el cuerpo de Cristo: El Corpus Christi en el Cuzco colonial, trans. Javier Flores Espinoza, introduction by Manuel Burga. Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and Banco Santander Central Hispano. [Revised and expanded edition, in Spanish, of Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru.]
1999 Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru. Durham: Duke University Press.
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