PD Dr. Christiane Clados

Senior Occasional Lecturer (Privatdozent)

Contact information

+49 6421 28-22432 christiane.clados@ 1 Deutschhausstraße 3
35032 Marburg
F|04 Institutsgebäude (Room: A219 resp. +2/1190)

Research Fellow in the DFG-Project "More than writing: encoding and decoding in and from Amerindian graphic communication systems between Mexico and the Andes".

Links:

www.tocapu.org

http://www.famsi.org/research/nasca/

Research areas:

visual anthropology, graphic pluralism, historical anthropology, cultural representations and perceptions of disasters in the past, anthropology of art and images, visual transculturation, autoethnography, stereotypes, semiotics, ethnoarchaeology, images in commerce, power and danger of iconography, symbolism, cognitive anthropology

  • Academic career

    2001 Ph.D. (magna cum laude), Ancient American Studies (Altamerikanistik), Freie Universität Berlin

    1998 Minor, Semiotics (2 semesters), Technische Universität Berlin

    1997 M.A. (summa cum laude), Ancient American Studies (Altamerikanistik), Freie Universität Berlin

    1994-1997 Minor, Archaeology Prehistoric Europe, Freie Universität Berlin

    1997 Minor, Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin

    since 2015 Visualizations and scientific advice, book project, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta

    since 2012 Lecturer, Philipps-Universität Marburg

    2009-2012 Research Associate, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne

    2009-2010 Lecturer, Anthropology and Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    2009 Lecturer, Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

    2005-2006 Visualizations and scientific advice, Costa Rica Catalogue Project, Denver Art Museum

    2002-2003 Research Associate, Ethnological Museum of Berlin

    2001-2003 Lecturer, Latin American Institute, Freie Universität Berlin

    2002 Research Associate, E.A. Seeman, Publishing House, Leipzig

    2000 Research Associate, Khipu-Project, (project director: Carmen Llosa) Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

    1999 Voluntary service, Museum of Anthropology, Grassi Museum, Leipzig

  • Research stay

    August-September 2010 Data collection in Peru and Bolivia St. Georgen Archaeological Project Berlin, Berlin Alexanderplatz

    2008 St. Georgen Archaeological Project Berlin, Berlin Alexanderplatz

    1996 Proyecto Puerto Pobre, Casma Valley, Peru, Freie Universität Berlin and Instituto Nacional de la Cultura (INC)

    1995 Proyecto Mitla, Mexico, director: Nelly Robles (INAH), Instituto Nacional de Antropología E Historía, Mexico

    1992 Proyecto Casma, Casma Valley, Peru, Freie Universität Berlin and Instituto Nacional de la Cultura (INC)

  • Publications (selection)

    2021. 200 Years a Woman, 1000 Years a Man: the case of the Marburg mummy.  Revista Arqueologia Pública, Campinas, SP, v. 16, n. 1, p. 6–25.

    2015. On the Iconic Nature of Tocapus and other Framed Motif Units. University Press of Colorado (in press).

    2014 Beyond Music: Non-Musical Uses of Music Instruments in Paracas and Nasca Iconography. Flower World (Mundo Florido), vol. 3: 189-186.

    2013 The Divine Heart Of Things. Katalog, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Köln (co-author: Stefanie Teufel).

    2012 Speicherchip der Vergangenheit, Dokumentation. Dresden Summer School. Von der Vitrine zum Web 2.0. (Clados et al.): 65-71.

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