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Living ruins : native engagements with past materialities in contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes /

"Living Ruins explores the ways people relate to the material remains of human behavior, providing a critical stance that contests institutionalized patrimonialization discourse of vestiges of the past in present landscapes. Nine case studies from the Maya region, the Andes, and Amazonia contex...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Erickson, Philippe (Éditeur intellectuel), Vapnarsky, Valentina (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2022]
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction : living ruins and vertiginous vestiges : Amerindian engagement with remnants of the past / Philippe Erikson and Valentina Vapnarsky
  • Patrimonialization, defilement, and the zombification of Yanesha cultural heritage (Peruvian Amazonia) / Fernando Santos-Granero
  • Maya living ruins : the hidden places of interlocking temporalities / Valentina Vapnarsky
  • Deserted ruins? Symbolic interest in spaces among Maya Tzeltal and Ch'ol people / Cédric Becquey and Marie Chosson
  • Where past and future meet ... abandoned village sites as cruxes of political, historical, and eschatological narratives among the Chacobo of Bolivian Amazonia / Philippe Erikson
  • Grounds for political claims : earthworks and anthropogenic soils as cultural heritage and sources of territorial legitimation in Brazilian Amazonia / Pirjo Kriistina Virtanen and Emilie Stoll
  • From prehumans to new agers : the symbolic efficacy of Inca vestiges / Antoinette Molinié
  • The topography of time : prehispanic ruins, topographical vestiges, and the controversial Andean new year (North Potosi, Bolivian Andes) / Laurence Charlier Zeinedine
  • Disparate ancestors : convergent pasts and the dynamics of heritage in the southern Andean Altiplano (Uyuni, Bolivia) / Pablo Cruz.