Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage : Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas

Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Julio Hoil Guiterrez

• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Year: 2017
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781607327004
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

This volume looks at how different physical environments contribute to the reproduction of cultural forms even in the wake of colonization, migration, and other processes of displacement and change. This raises the question of whether cultural practices are altered by changes in physical environment or if a group's narratives and practices shape their location. Using case studies from North and South America, the contributors reveal a pattern of abandonment and reestablishment of settlements and how collective memory drives people back to culturally meaningful sites. Through the lenses of archaeology and ethnohistory and by examining the politics of cultural continuity, the authors argue that there is a complex relationship between a people's heritage and the landscape that affects the making of "place."

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Settlement Patterns, Intangible Memory, and the Institutional Entanglements of Heritage in Modern Yucatán
• Chapter 3 Hopisinmuy Wu’ya’mat Hisat Yang Tupqa’va Yeesiwngwu (Hopi Ancestors Lived in These Canyons)
• Chapter 4 Designs on /of the Land
• Chapter 5 Cultivating Community
• Chapter 6 Indigenous House Plans and Land in Mexico City (Sixteenth Century)
• Chapter 7 The Archaeology of Place in Ebtún, Yucatán, Mexico
• Chapter 8 Names, Naming, and Person Reference in Quiahije Chatino
• Chapter 9 A Culturescape Built over 5,000 Years, Archaeology, and Vichama Raymi in the Forge of History
• Chapter 10 Interpreting Long-Term Human-Environment Interaction in Amazonia
• Contributors
• Index