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Maya Cultural Heritage: How Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities Engage the Past

Maya Cultural Heritage: How Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities Engage the Past

McAnany, Patricia A.
Rowe, Sarah M.

Hardcover

Series: Archaeology in Society

Business GeneralArchaeologyCentral American History

ISBN10: 1442241276
ISBN13: 9781442241275
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Sep 15 2016
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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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