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Home / The Wixaritari and the Heart of the World: a lecture by Dr. Anthony Shelton, Executive Director of the UBC Museum of Anthropology

The Wixaritari and the Heart of the World: a lecture by Dr. Anthony Shelton, Executive Director of the UBC Museum of Anthropology

September 17, 2015

Join MOA Director Dr. Anthony Shelton for a special lecture on The Wixaritari (Huichol). The Wixaritari, who live in the mountainous, isolated parts of northwest Mexico, have retained a unique cosmology despite continuous threats to despoil their land and sacred sites. Their homeland was created through the sacrifice of their ancestral deities who became transformed into the land, mountains, seas and plant and animal forms that surround them. This presentation will open a glimpse into this world and describe some of their techniques and philosophy which enables them to see what is invisible to others.

When: September 29, Tuesday 2015 7:00pm

Where: UBC Museum of Anthropology 6393 Northwest Marine Drive, Vancouver BC

Admission: Free with the cost of admission to museum

 

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