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The materials below are exclusively for OSEA Program Participants. Documents are in MS Word or PDF designed for download. All rights are reserved and all other use requires the written consent of OSEA.

OSEA Library of Readings
Articles by Quetzil Castañeda

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On Ethnography of Archaeology
2009. Book Review of Philip Duke, The Tourists Gaze, the Cretans Glance: Archaeology and Tourism on a Greek Island. Heritage, Tourism, and Community Series. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press (2007). Published on H-Net Travel Reviews.

2009."Transcultural Pasts: Ethnographic Installation as a Method in the Ethnographic Study of Archaeology" (under review at Public Archaeology)

2008. The "Ethnographic Turn" in Archaeology: Research Positioning and Reflexivity in Ethnographic Archaeologies. In Q.Castaneda and C. Matthews, eds., pp. 25-61. Ethnographic Archaeologies. Lanhm, MD: AltaMira Press.

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On Tourism, Representation, Heritage, Adventure
2009. "Note on the Work of Heritage in the Age of Archaeological Reproduction." In L.Mortensen & J.Hollowell, eds., Archaeologies & Ethnographies. University of Florida Press. In press.

2002. "Postcolonial Toponymy: Writing Forward in Reverse." (on naming of Yucatŕn) IN Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Travesia, vol. 11 (2): 119-134

2001. "Approaching Ruins: A Photo-Ethnographic Essay on the Busy Intersections of Chichén Itzá" IN Visual Anthropology Review vol 16(2): 43-70(4megs pdf)

(2003) "In Search of Simmel & Similar Adventures Among Ruins" Unpublished Manuscript

(2003) "Equinox or Eclipse? Adventure-Traveling Among Maya Ruins" Unpublished Manuscript

(1994) An Archaeology of Tourist Landscape of Yucatán. Unpublished Manuscript.

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On History of Anthropology
2003. "On Stocking's Historiography" (Boas, Gamio, Redfield) IN Critique of Anthropology, vol. 23(3): 235-262

2005. Carnegie Mission & Vision of Science: Institutional Contexts of Maya Archaeology & Espionage. IN R. Darnell & F. W. Gleach, eds. History of Anthropology Annual Vol.1, pp. 37-74.(2meg pdf)

2009. "Conjunctivitis: Notes on Historical Ethnography, Paradigms, and Social Networks in Anthropology.  In Prophet, Pariah, and Pioneer:  Walter W. Taylor and American Archaeology. Allan L. Maca, Jonathan E. Reyman, and William J. Folan, eds., University Press of Colorado.

 

On the Pisté Maya Art and Art World of Chichén Itzá
2009. "Aesthetics and Ambivalence in Modern Maya Art." In Jeff Kowalski, ed. Crafting Maya Art, NIU Press, pp. 133-151.

2005. "Between Pure and Applied Research: Experimental Ethnography" IN NAPA Bulletin #23:87-118

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

2004. "Art-Writing in the Modern Maya Art World of Chichén" IN American Ethnologist, vol. 31(1):21-42

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On Social and Political Histories of Pisté and Chichén
2009. "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, pp. .

2005. "Tourism Wars in Yucatan." Anthropology Newsletter, May

2003. "New & Old Social Movements: Measuring Pisté from the Mouth of the Well to the 107th Municipio of Yucatan." IN Ethnohistory, vol. 50(4): 611-642.

1997. "On the Correct Training of Indios in the Handicraft Market of Chichén Itzá: Tactics and Tactility of Gender, Class, Race, and State." Journal of Latin American Anthropology. vol. 2(2): 106-143.

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On Ethics in Anthropology and Archaeology
2006. "Ethnography in the Forest: Ethics and Morals in Anthropology." Cultural Anthropology, vol. 21 (1): 121-145.

(2006). "What is Ethical in Archaeology? An Analysis of Ethical Codes and Morals of Archaeology." (unpublished ms/word doc)

On Ethnography, Fieldwork & Methodologies
2006. The Invisible Theatre of Ethnography: The Performative PRinciples of Fieldwork. Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 79 (1):75-104

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On Maya Identity Politics, Culture, and History
2004. Introduction to Maya Identity of Yucatán. Journal of Latin American Anthropology, vol. 9(1): 36-63.

2000. The Topography of Maya Culture: On the Modernizing Maya. Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol 21, pp. 249-265.

1995. "The Progress That Chose a Village": Measuring Zero-Culture and The Impact of Anthropology. Critique of Anthropology, vol. 15, pp. 115-147.

Book Review of Pluralizing Ethnography by J. Watanabe and E. Fischer, eds.

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On Genealogy of the Museum, Tourism, Archaeology
2011. Tourist is Universal Citizen Heir. Invited Lecture, Anthropology Graduate Students, Museum Studies. Syracuse University. February 24. (Powerpoint Presentation, in pdf)

2010. Castaneda, Quetzil and Jennifer Mathews. Archaeology and Tourist Meccas of Travel: Exploration, Protection, Exploitation. Chapter for book edited by Neil Carr and Cameron Walker, Tourism and Archaeology.

 


 

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