Daniel Graña-behrens
Professor
Cultural Anthropological Research
Frobenius Institute
Germany
Biography
Daniel Graña-Behrens (born 18.05.1965) studied Latin American history in Guanajuato (Mexico) and ethnology and ancient American studies in Bonn. It is dedicated to the exploitation of indigenous primary sources, the reconstruction of history and the cultural memory and ontologies of Mesoamerica. Its cultural focus is on the Maya, its hieroglyphic script, as well as its death cult and ancestral worship. At the moment, he is primarily concerned with ecological anthropology and the question of the cognitive basis for thinking in ontologies. In the years 2007 and 2008 he worked with a tandem project of the Volkswagen Foundation on writing and ritual in the cultural memory of Mesoamerica and the old China at the Institute for Ethnology of the University of Frankfurt am Main.
Research Interest
Ecological anthropology
Publications
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2002, "Santa Rosa Xtampak, Campeche," in La pintura mural prehispánica en México 17, p. 34-38.
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2004 "Santa Rosa Xtampak, Campeche y sus inscripciones", in: Estudios de Cultura Maya 25, p. 33-46.
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2006 "Emblem of Glyphs and Political Organization in the Yucatan in the Classical Period (AD 300 - 1000)", in: Ancient Mesoamerica 17 (1), p. 1-19.
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2007 (and Elisabeth Wagner) "Commentary", in: Karl Herbert Meyer, at unprovenced Maya relief panel in Coban, Guatemala. Mexicon XXIX, pp. 41-42.
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2008 (and Xiaobing Wang-Riese) "Ancestors in Maya and Shang Chinese Inscriptions", Paideuma 54, pp. 129-149.
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2009 "El llorar entre los nahuas y otras culturas mesoaméricanas", in: Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 40, pp. 155-182.
