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Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated by social, political, and ecological processes that have deep historical roots and that continue to affect the politics of heritage management.

Spaces of human habitation are both historical records of the past and key elements in reproducing the knowledge and values that define lives in the present. Practices, knowledge, and skills that communities recognize as part of their culture—and that a range of legal statutes define as protected intangible heritages—are threatened by increased migration, the displacement of indigenous peoples, and limits on access to culturally or historically significant sites. This volume addresses how different physical environments contribute to the reproduction of cultural forms even in the wake of these processes of displacement and change. Case studies from North and South America reveal a pattern of abandonment and reestablishment of settlements and show how collective memory drives people back to culturally meaningful sites.

This tendency for communities to return to the sites that shaped their collective histories, along with the growing importance granted to intangible heritage, challenges archaeologists and other heritage workers to find new ways of incorporating the cultural legacies that link societies to place into the work of research and stewardship. By examining the politics of cultural continuity through the lenses of archaeology and ethnohistory, Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage demonstrates this complex relationship between a people’s heritage and the landscape that affects the making of "place."

Contributors: Rani Alexander, Hannah Becker, Minette Church, Bonnie Clark, Chip Colwell, Winifred Creamer, Emiliana Cruz, T. J. Ferguson, Julio Hoil Gutierrez, Jonathan Haas, Saul Hedquist, Maren Hopkins, Stuart B. Koyiyumptewa, Christine Kray, Henry Marcelo Castillo, Anna Roosevelt, Jason Yaeger, Keiko Yoneda

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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas
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  1. Contents
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  1. List of Figures
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  1. 1. Introduction
  2. Fernando Armstrong-Fumero and Julio Hoil Gutierrez
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  1. 2. Settlement Patterns, Intangible Memory, and the Institutional Entanglements of Heritage in Modern Yucatán
  2. Fernando Armstrong-Fumero and Julio Hoil Gutierrez
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  1. 3. Hopisinmuy Wu’ya’mat Hisat Yang Tupqa’va Yeesiwngwu (Hopi Ancestors Lived in These Canyons)
  2. Maren P. Hopkins, Stuart B. Koyiyumptewa, Saul L. Hedquist, T. J. Ferguson, and Chip Colwell
  3. pp. 33-52
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  1. Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas
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  1. 4. Designs on/of the Land: Competing Visions, Displacement, and Landscape Memory in British Colonial Honduras
  2. Christine Kray, Minette Church, and Jason Yaeger
  3. pp. 53-78
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  1. Chapter 1 Introduction
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  1. 5. Cultivating Community: The Archaeology of Japanese American Confinement at Amache
  2. Bonnie Clark
  3. pp. 79-96
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  1. Chapter 2 Settlement Patterns, Intangible Memory, and the Institutional Entanglements of Heritage in Modern Yucatán
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  1. 6. Indigenous House Plans and Land in Mexico City (Sixteenth Century): Reflections on the Buying and Selling, Inheritance, and Conflicts Surrounding Houses and Land
  2. Keiko Yoneda (translated by Hannah Becker)
  3. pp. 97-130
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  1. Chapter 3 Hopisinmuy Wu’ya’mat Hisat Yang Tupqa’va Yeesiwngwu (Hopi Ancestors Lived in These Canyons)
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  1. 7. The Archaeology of Place in Ebtún, Yucatán, Mexico
  2. Rani T. Alexander
  3. pp. 131-162
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  1. Chapter 4 Designs on /of the Land
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  1. 8. Names, Naming, and Person Reference in Quiahije Chatino
  2. Emiliana Cruz
  3. pp. 163-188
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  1. Chapter 5 Cultivating Community
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  1. 9. A Culturescape Built over 5,000 Years, Archaeology, and Vichama Raymi in the Forge of History
  2. Winifred Creamer, Jonathan Haas, and Henry Marcelo Castillo
  3. pp. 189-208
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  1. Chapter 6 Indigenous House Plans and Land in Mexico City (Sixteenth Century)
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  1. 10. Interpreting Long-Term Human-Environment Interaction in Amazonia
  2. Anna C. Roosevelt
  3. pp. 209-238
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 239-240
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  1. Chapter 7 The Archaeology of Place in Ebtún, Yucatán, Mexico
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 241-248
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  1. Chapter 8 Names, Naming, and Person Reference in Quiahije Chatino
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  1. Chapter 9 A Culturescape Built over 5,000 Years, Archaeology, and Vichama Raymi in the Forge of History
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  1. Chapter 10 Interpreting Long-Term Human-Environment Interaction in Amazonia
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