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DESCRIPTION:"Dragons and Affects in the Ancient City:\nLessons from Cahokia
  and the Emerald Acropolis"The qualities and historical implications of ur
 banism in the past greatly exceed the standard population-agriculture mode
 ls through which we still learn to imagine our urban futures. But the firs
 t cities did not emerge simply because unchecked human population growth e
 nabled by agriculture led to ever-larger aggregations of people. Many citi
 es were reputedly founded by or for the gods and henceforth revealed the c
 osmic order to their inhabitants through the affective qualities of spaces
 \, materials\, and other-than-human inhabitants. Those affective qualities
 \, qua cities\, fundamentally altered human history. Even today\, they aff
 ord a palpable cultural energy that defines humanity. Cities are their own
  ontologies both today and in ancient times.I outline the contours of an a
 rgument that seeks answers to proximate questions—how?—beginning with ongo
 ing intensive studies of the qualities and associations of temples\, posts
 \, offerings\, and monuments at the city of Cahokia and its principal shri
 ne complex\, the Emerald Acropolis. Built on the Mississippi River in 1050
  CE\, Cahokia was probably intentionally sited in a watery marshland inhab
 ited by ancestral spirits and fundamental life forces. Next\, I turn to ot
 her instances of ancient urbanism in Asia and the Americas and reconnect w
 ith the conclusions of 19th century historian Fustel de Coulanges\, who be
 lieved that the foundation of the ancient city “was always a religious act
 .” As it happens\, some of the earliest cities arose out of waters\, jungl
 es\, and desert oases inhabited by other-than-human spirits. Rethinking an
 cient urbanism in this vein enables us to analyze relationships between pe
 ople and elemental forces that are key to a more sustainable urbanism in t
 he future
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SUMMARY:Department of Anthropology Speaker Series presents: Timothy Pauketa
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p>"<i>Dragons and Affects in the Ancie
 nt City:\nLessons from Cahokia and the Emerald Acropolis</i>"</p><p></p><p
 >The qualities and historical implications of urbanism in the past greatly
  exceed the standard population-agriculture models through which we still 
 learn to imagine our urban futures. But the first cities did not emerge si
 mply because unchecked human population growth enabled by agriculture led 
 to ever-larger aggregations of people. Many cities were reputedly founded 
 by or for the gods and henceforth revealed the cosmic order to their inhab
 itants through the affective qualities of spaces\, materials\, and other-t
 han-human inhabitants. Those affective qualities\, qua cities\, fundamenta
 lly altered human history. Even today\, they afford a palpable cultural en
 ergy that defines humanity. Cities are their own ontologies both today and
  in ancient times.</p><p>I outline the contours of an argument that seeks 
 answers to proximate questions—how?—beginning with ongoing intensive studi
 es of the qualities and associations of temples\, posts\, offerings\, and 
 monuments at the city of Cahokia and its principal shrine complex\, the Em
 erald Acropolis. Built on the Mississippi River in 1050 CE\, Cahokia was p
 robably intentionally sited in a watery marshland inhabited by ancestral s
 pirits and fundamental life forces. Next\, I turn to other instances of an
 cient urbanism in Asia and the Americas and reconnect with the conclusions
  of 19th century historian Fustel de Coulanges\, who believed that the fou
 ndation of the ancient city “was always a religious act.” As it happens\, 
 some of the earliest cities arose out of waters\, jungles\, and desert oas
 es inhabited by other-than-human spirits. Rethinking ancient urbanism in t
 his vein enables us to analyze relationships between people and elemental 
 forces that are key to a more sustainable urbanism in the future</p><p></p
 >
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