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Earth politics and intangible heritage : three case studies in the Americas /

Focusing on three communities in the Americas, this book layers archaeological research with oral narratives and social memories, demonstrating a way of reconciling the tension between western scientific and local Indigenous approaches to history.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christie, Jessica Joyce, 1956- (Author)
Other Authors: Shackel, Paul A. (author of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2021]
Series:Cultural heritage studies.
Subjects:
Cultural landscapes > Arizona > Chelly, Canyon de.
Cultural landscapes > Mexico > Cobá.
Cultural landscapes > Bolivia > Copacabana (Manco Kapac)
Copacabana (Manco Kapac, Bolivia) > History.
Cobá (Mexico) > History.
Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.) > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Canyon de Chelly
  • Cultural Landscapes of Canyon de Chelly through Time: The Archaeological Past
  • Cultural Landscapes of Canyon de Chelly through Time: Heritage in the Present
  • Discussion
  • Part II. Coba
  • The Cultural and Political Landscape of Pre-Contact Coba: The Late and Terminal Classic (c.600
  • 800/900 A.D.) Maya City of Coba
  • The Cultural and Political Landscape of Coba from c.1950 A.D. to the Present:
  • Discussion
  • Part III. Copacabana
  • The Cultural Landscape of pre-Inka Copacabana: An Archaeological Reconstruction
  • The Cultural Landscape of Inka Copacabana: An Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Reconstruction
  • The Cultural Landscape of Colonial Copacabana
  • The Cultural Landscape of Present-Day Copacabana
  • Discussion
  • Conclusions