Published by
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite,
Ixiptla is a journal about trajectories of
anthropology, initiated by the artist
Mariana Castillo Deball. Published in the context of exhibitions or art events,
Ixiptla takes the form of a highly visual magazine with substantial essays by anthropologists, archaeologists, artists, and writers.
The Nahua
ixiptla concept has been translated as image, delegate, substitute or representative.
Ixiptla could be a statue, a vision or the victim that becomes the god for human sacrifice. The various
ixiptla of the same god could occur simultaneously.
Ixiptla derive from the particle xip: skin, cover, shell; is the container, the recognizable presence, the update of a force embedded in an object: a being there, removing the distinction between essence and matter, original and copy.
