Patricia A. Mcanany

Maya Cultural Heritage (eBook, PDF)

How Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities Engage the Past

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Situated at the intersection of cultural heritage and local community, this book enlarges our understanding of the Indigenous peoples of southern México and northern Central America who became detached from "the ancient Maya" through colonialism, government actions, and early twentieth-century anthropological and archaeological research. Through grass-roots heritage programs, local communities are reconnecting with a much valorized but distant past. Maya Cultural Heritage explores how community programs conceived and implemented in a collaborative style are changing the relationship among, archaeological practice, the objects of archaeological study, and contemporary ethnolinguistic Mayan communities. Rather than simply describing Maya sites, McAnany concentrates on the dialogue nurtured by these participatory heritage programs, the new "heritage-scapes" they foster, and how the diverse Maya communities of today relate to those of the past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881856779
• Artikelnr.: 74833050

Autorenporträt

Patricia A. McAnany is Kenan Eminent Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Ancestral Maya Economies in Archaeological Perspective and Living with the Ancestors: Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Part I: Background and the Big Ideas
Chapter 1: Haunting Questions
Chapter 2: Forging Nationalism and Indenturing Labor
Chapter 3: Disciplining the Past
Chapter 4: Rethinking Business as Usual
Chapter 5: Engaging the Shadow of "The Ancient Maya"
Part II: Connecting with Communities around Heritage Issues 163
Chapter 6: Bridges to Community Partnerships
Chapter 7: Maya Area Cultural Heritage Initiative (MACHI)
Part III: In Their Own Words
Chapter 8: Talking Cultural Heritage at School
Chapter 9: Performing the Past, Creating a Future
Chapter 10: Restoring Balance: Pathways to Heritage without Irony
References Cited
Index