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Publications
Based in Research & Collaborations of the Field School in Experimental Ethnography
(1997–1999) and OSEA (2003–present)

Recent OSEA publications include Estrategias Identitarias (scroll down), edited by OSEA Co-Founders
Juan A. Castillo Cocom and Quetzil Castañeda, and published through a collaboration between OSEA with (Universidad Pedag&ociaNacional) and the SE Secretaria Educaci&oculte.com. See below for additional publications that are based in research based on or associated with OSEA programs and activities.


NEW Book
released by AltaMira Press on February 15, 2008

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Co-edited volume is based on the OSEA hosted Wenner Gren Workshop held in Pisté & Chichén Itzá in June 2005

Editors, and workshop organizers
Quetzil E. Castañeda is co-founder and director of the Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology.

Christopher N. Matthews is associate professor of anthropology at Hofstra University.

Contributors
Quetzil E. Castañeda, Richard Handler, Julie Hollowell, Mark P. Leone, Christopher N. Matthews, George Nicholas, K. Anne Pyburn, Larry J. Zimmerman

 

Other Books


Estrategias Identitarias:
Educación y la Antropología Historica en Yucatán

Juan A. Castillo Cocom and Quetzil E. Castañeda, editors
published by SE-Yucatán, UPN-Mérida and OSEA



In the Museum
of Maya Culture
Touring Chichén Itzá

by Quetzil E. Castañeda
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995
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Armstrong Fumero, Fernando
2000 Making Art in Pisté: Art and Experimental Ethnography in a Yucatec Maya Community. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania.

Breglia, Lisa C.
2006 Monumental Ambivalence. Austin: University of Texas Press.

2003 Docile Descendants and Illegitimate Heirs: Privatization of Cultural Patrimony in Mexico. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Rice University.

Castañeda, Quetzil E., Fernando Armstrong Fumero and Lisa C. Breglia
1999 Ah Dzib P'izté': Modern Maya Art in Ancient Tradition. Exhibition Catalog. Lake Forest, IL: Lake Forest College.

Castañeda, Quetzil E. and Lisa C. Breglia
1997-98 Monograph of the Field School in Experimental Ethnography. 2 Vols. (1997, 1998). Unpublished MS

Castañeda, Quetzil E.
n.d.  Heritage and Indigeneity: Transformations in the Politics of Tourism.  In Michele Baud and Annelou Ypeji, ed., Heritage and Cultural Tourism in Latin America. Amsterdam: CEDLA.  In press, publication is expected in 2008.

n.d.  Notes on the Work of Heritage in the Age of Archaeological Reproduction. In Lena Mortensen and Julie Hollowell, eds., Archaeologies and Ethnographies. University Press of Florida.  In press, publication expected in 2009.

2008 “Chichén Itzá” in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. 2nd Edition. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons.

2008 Introduction: Reflections on Ethnography and the Social Construction of Archaeology.  In Q. E. Castañeda and C. N. Matthews, editors. Ethnographic ARchaeologies. AltaMira Press, pp. 1-7.

2008 “The Ethnographic Turn”:  Research Positioning and Reflexivity in Ethnographic Archeologies. In Q. E. Castañeda and C. N. Matthews, editors. “Ethnographic ARchaeologies.” Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, pp. 25-62.

2006 The Invisible Theatre of Ethnography: The Performative Principles of Fieldwork. Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 79 (1): 47-76.

2006 Ethnography in the Forest: An Analysis of Ethics in the Morals of Anthropology. Cultural Anthropology, vol. 21 (1): 121-145.

2005 The Carnegie Mission and Vision of Science: Institutional Contexts of Maya Archaeology and Espionage. In R. Darnell and F. W. Gleach, eds. History of Anthropology Annual, Vol.1. University of Nebraska Press, vol.1: 37-74.

2005 Between Pure and Applied Research: Ethnography in a Transcultural Tourist Art World. Special Issue, Anthropological Contributions to the Tourism Industry. Tim Wallace, editor. NAPA Bulletin, #23: 87-118..

2005 Community Collaboration and Ethnographic Intervention: Dialogues in the Pisté Maya Art World. Practicing Anthropology, vol. 27 (4): 31-34.

2004 Art-Writing in the Maya Art World of Chichén Itzá: Transcultural Ethnography and Experimental Fieldwork. American Ethnologist, vol. 31 (1): 21-42.

Castillo Cocom, Juan A.
2004 Lost in Mayaland. Journal of Latin American Anthropology, vol. 9 (1): 183-18

2005 It Was Simply Their Word: Yucatec Maya PRInces in YucaPAN And the Politics of Respect. Critique of Anthropology, vol 25 (1):

Castillo Cocom, Juan A. and Castañeda, Quetzil E.
2004 Estrategias Identitarias: Educación y la antropologia histórica en Yucatán. Mérida, México: Universidad Pedagógica Nacional–Mérida, the Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology, and Secretaria de Educación–Yucatán.