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Maya Cultural Heritage
How Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities Engage the Past
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2016
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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.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-4127-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-4128-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
246
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Acknowledgments No access
1 : Haunting Questions No access
2 : Forging Nationalism and Indenturing Labor No access
3 : Disciplining the Past No access
4 : Rethinking Business as Usual No access
5 : Engaging the Shadow of the “Ancient Maya” No access
6 : Bridges to Community Partnerships No access
7 : The Maya Area Cultural Heritage Initiative No access
8 : Talking Cultural Heritage at School No access
9 : Performing the Past, Creating a Future No access
10 : Restoring Balance: Pathways to Heritage without Irony No access
