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Negotiating Heritage through Education and Archaeology: Colonialism, National Identity, and Resistance in Belize

McGill, Alicia Ebbitt

Gainesville: University Press of Florida 2021

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  • Título:
    Negotiating Heritage through Education and Archaeology: Colonialism, National Identity, and Resistance in Belize
  • Autor: McGill, Alicia Ebbitt
  • Assuntos: Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Belize-Social life and customs ; Cultural ; Nationalism ; Nationalism-Belize ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; World politics
  • Descrição: Through an innovative approach that combines years of ethnographic research with British imperial archival sources, this book reveals how cultural heritage has been negotiated by colonial, independent state, and community actors in Belize from the late nineteenth century to the present. Alicia McGill explores the heritage of two African-descendant Kriol communities as seen in the contexts of archaeology and formal education. McGill demonstrates that in both spheres, Belizean institutions have constructed and used heritage places and ideologies to manage difference, govern subjects and citizens, and reinforce development agendas. In the communities studied here, ancient Maya cities and legacies have been prized while Kriol histories have been marginalized, and racial and ethnic inequalities have endured. Yet McGill shows that at the same time, Belizean teachers and children resist, maintaining their Kriol identity through storytelling, subsistence practices, and other engagements with ecological resources. They also creatively identify connections between themselves and the ancient cultures that once lived in their regions. Exploring heritage as a social construct, McGill provides examples of the many ways people construct values, meanings, and customs related to it. Negotiating Heritage through Education and Archaeology is a richly informed study that emphasizes the importance of community-based engagement in public history and heritage studies. A volume in the series Cultural Heritage Studies, edited by Paul A. Shackel
  • Títulos relacionados: Cultural Heritage Studies
  • Editor: Gainesville: University Press of Florida
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2021
  • Formato: 288
  • Idioma: Inglês
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