DOI Artikel:
Kubiak, Ewa; Szoblik, Katarzyna: Foreword
Zitierlink:https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/aal2019/0016
Sztuka Ameryki Łacińskiej 2019, nr 9
ISSN 2299-260X
Foreword
Death and fear of death in history, culture, art and literature
We would like to present the ninth issue of the yearbook “Latin American Art”,
prepared by the Section of Central and South American Art, operating with-
in the Polish Institute of World Art Studies. This time it is a monographic vol-
ume devoted to the issue of death, both in the real and symbolic sense, as well
as the fear of death and its various images. Therefore we have chosen a broad-
er interdisciplinary approach. The articles concern not only the visual arts, but
also relationship between a text and an image, death and its images in anthro-
pological and historical terms, as well as depiction of death, terror and violence
in literature.
The ninth volume consists of seven articles. The first one is devoted to
a literary text in the Nahuatl language, which dates back to the early Colo-
nial period. Katarzyna Szoblik (University of Warsaw) analyses a song en-
titled Pipilcuicatl or “Children’s Song”. The presented study reads out new
content of the work. Translating the text from Nahuatl into Spanish, the au-
thor finds new levels of meaning in the song and repeatedly refers in her
analysis to visual representations from both the Aztec and Christian cul-
tures.
In the second article entitled “The Blue Harbinger of Death. From the
folk beliefs of the Central Andes”, the authors, Mirosław Mąka and Elżbieta
Jodłowska (Jagiellonian University), offer a monographic sketch discussing
one of the most popular omens of disease and death in the traditional Ande-
an cultures: a blue fly, called chiririnka in the quechua language. The origins
ISSN 2299-260X
Foreword
Death and fear of death in history, culture, art and literature
We would like to present the ninth issue of the yearbook “Latin American Art”,
prepared by the Section of Central and South American Art, operating with-
in the Polish Institute of World Art Studies. This time it is a monographic vol-
ume devoted to the issue of death, both in the real and symbolic sense, as well
as the fear of death and its various images. Therefore we have chosen a broad-
er interdisciplinary approach. The articles concern not only the visual arts, but
also relationship between a text and an image, death and its images in anthro-
pological and historical terms, as well as depiction of death, terror and violence
in literature.
The ninth volume consists of seven articles. The first one is devoted to
a literary text in the Nahuatl language, which dates back to the early Colo-
nial period. Katarzyna Szoblik (University of Warsaw) analyses a song en-
titled Pipilcuicatl or “Children’s Song”. The presented study reads out new
content of the work. Translating the text from Nahuatl into Spanish, the au-
thor finds new levels of meaning in the song and repeatedly refers in her
analysis to visual representations from both the Aztec and Christian cul-
tures.
In the second article entitled “The Blue Harbinger of Death. From the
folk beliefs of the Central Andes”, the authors, Mirosław Mąka and Elżbieta
Jodłowska (Jagiellonian University), offer a monographic sketch discussing
one of the most popular omens of disease and death in the traditional Ande-
an cultures: a blue fly, called chiririnka in the quechua language. The origins