5-0800 THE LEGACY OF MESOAMERICAN ANCESTORS: ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE IN AND BEYOND CONTEMPORARY MEXICO

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Saturday, November 19, 2011: 13:45-17:30

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Organizers: David S Anderson PhD (Independent Scholar) and Dylan J Clark (Harvard University)

Chairs: J Heath Anderson (College of Wooster)

Discussants: Pamela R Frese (College of Wooster)

13:45

“A Mirror of Their Land: Indigenous Maps and Agency From the Colonial Period to Contemporary Mexico”

Ana Pulido-Rull (Harvard University)

14:00

“La Zona arqueológica De Ek’Balam En La construcción De La Narrativa Del Pasado prehispánico En Los Habitantes Mayas De Las Localidades De Hunukú, Ek’ Balam y Santa Rita En Yucatán México”

Alejandra Alonso-Olvera (University of Calgary / Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia)

14:15

The Ruins Are Important Once Again: Competing Explanations of History, Place and Ancestors In Oaxaca

Alanna Cant (London School of Economics and Political Science)

14:30

Arqueología Patria: La arqueología Mexicana y El Proceso De construcción De La nación Durante El Porfiriato

Nancy Peniche May (University of California, San Diego)

14:45

Configuring and Commoditizing the Archaeological Landscape: Heritage, Identity and Tourism In the Tuxtla Mountains

Marcie L Venter PhD (Missouri State University) and Sarah M Lyon (University of Kentucky)

15:00

De Ancestros y De Libros: La percepción Del Pasado prehispánico En niños De Una Comunidad Yucateca contemporánea

Lilia Fernandez Souza (Universidad Autonoma de Yucatán)

15:15

Es Nuestra Tradición: The Continuing Importance of Ballgames In Modern Mexico

Marijke Stoll (University of Arizona)

15:30

Mayabilidad: Self-Identity Notions At Yaxunah In the Shadow of Chichén itzá (Yucatán)

Victoria Beltran (Universidad de las Américas Puebla), Aline Magnoni (University of New Orleans) and Travis W Stanton (Universidad de las Américas Puebla)

15:45

Stranger In a Strange Land: Observations On the Interaction Between a Small Zapotec Community and Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History

Ronald Kenneth Faulseit Jr (Tulane University)

16:00

Sun, Sand and… Sacred Pyramids: The Mayanization of Cancun´s Tourist Imaginary

Carmen Munoz-Fernandez (Tulane University)

16:15

Three Generations of Cooperation: Voices From Tula, Hidalgo

J Heath Anderson (College of Wooster)

16:30

The Mexican Legacy In Nicaragua, or Problems When Data Behave Badly

Geoffrey G McCafferty (University of Calgary)

16:45

The Role of Migrations In Creating Identities Among Mesoamerican Peoples From Prehispanic to Modern Times

Nezahualcoyotl Xiuhtecutli (Tulane University)

17:00

Discussant

Pamela R Frese (College of Wooster)

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