TY - JOUR
KW - heritage
KW - Materiality
KW - Maya
KW - multiculturalism
KW - Yucatan
AU - Fernando Armstrong-Fumero
AB - This 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.
BT - Anthropological Quarterly
DO - 10.1353/anq.2018.0066
LA - English
M1 - 4
N1 - Publisher: Institute for Ethnographic Research
N2 - This 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.
PY - 2018
SP - 1303
EP - 1328
T2 - Anthropological Quarterly
TI - Artifactual Surface and the Limits of Inclusion: Blurring the Boundary Between Materiality and Intangible Heritage
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85062806935&doi=10.1353%2fanq.2018.0066&partnerID=40&md5=04f475087fa03e72422c9211f00e7e21
VL - 91
SN - 00035491 (ISSN)
ER -