Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage : : Three Case Studies in the Americas.

• Superior document: Cultural Heritage Studies
• Author: Christie, Jessica Joyce.
• Place / Publishing House: Gainesville : : University Press of Florida,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural Heritage Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (271 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage Cultural Heritage Studies -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Canyon de Chelly -- 1. Cultural Landscapes of Canyon de Chelly through Time: The Archaeological Past -- 2. Cultural Landscapes of Canyon de Chelly through Time: Heritage in the Present -- 3. Discussion -- Part II. Coba -- 4. The Cultural and Political Landscape of Pre-Contact Coba -- 5. The Cultural and Political Landscape of Coba from c. 1950 A.D. to the Present -- 6. Discussion -- Part III. Copacabana -- 7. The Cultural Landscapes of Pre-Inka and Inka Copacabana: An Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Reconstruction -- 8. The Cultural Landscapes of Colonial and Present-Day Copacabana -- 9. Discussion -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index.