01543nas a2200217 4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653001300044653001600057653000900073653002100082653001200103100003000115245011900145856014600264300001400410490000700424520087400431022002001305 2018 d10aheritage10aMateriality10aMaya10amulticulturalism10aYucatan1 aFernando Armstrong-Fumero00aArtifactual Surface and the Limits of Inclusion: Blurring the Boundary Between Materiality and Intangible Heritage uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85062806935&doi=10.1353%2fanq.2018.0066&partnerID=40&md5=04f475087fa03e72422c9211f00e7e21 a1303-13280 v913 aThis article explores a central tension in the relationship between intangible and tangible heritage politics in the Oriente region of the Mexican state of Yucatan. In these communities, the burning of candles in colonial-era churches and the re-occupation of sites that contain pre-Hispanic ruins have played important roles in the reproduction of certain elements of intangible cultural heritage. However, both of these practices involve alterations of archaeological sites or historical artifacts that federal heritage authorities characterize as “destructive.” The seemingly insurmountable tension between intangible heritage that is instantiated through the manipulation of physical objects and the formal statutes for tangible heritage management raises important questions about the boundaries between the human and non-human dimensions of heritage practice. a00035491 (ISSN)