In "Elusive Unity," Armstrong-Fumero examines early twentieth-century peasant politics and twenty-first-century indigenous politics in the rural Oriente region of Yucatan. The rural inhabitants of this region have had some of their most important dealings with their nation s government as self-identified peasants and Maya. Using ethnography, oral history, and archival research, Armstrong-Fumero shows how the same body of narrative tropes has defined the local experience of twentieth-century agrarianism and twenty-first-century multiculturalism. Through these recycled narratives,...
In "Elusive Unity," Armstrong-Fumero examines early twentieth-century peasant politics and twenty-first-century indigenous politics in the rural Orien...
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...
Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physi...
S. Ashley Kistler S. Ashley Kistler Fernando Armstrong-Fumero
Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and power. Faces of Resistance explores the importance of heroes through the analyses of heroic figures, some controversial and alternative, from the Maya area.
Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and power. Faces of...
