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AN Commentaries Florence Babb, Post-Revolutionary Tourism: Heritage Celebrated or Forgotten? (May 2005 AN). How post-revolutionary tourism is marketed and what present-day state-sanctioned versions of Nicaragua and Cuba’s past say about their relationship with their own heritage during times of political-economic transition. Quetzil E Castañeda, Tourism “Wars” in the Yucatán (May 2005 AN). When the ownership of cultural patrimony is nominally owned by the state but actually controlled and regulated by private interests, the Maya presentation of heritage gets reduced to a money-making gesture aimed at tourists. Lena Mortensen, Developing Heritage Tourism in Honduras (May 2005 AN). The rising global and local stakeholders who find their futures affected by the Maya past, such as at Copán Archaeological Park, make negotiating among such interests increasingly complex. Alaka Wali, Moving beyond the Museum’s Walls: Inextricable Links between Museums and Heritage (May 2005 AN). Although collections-based museums have come under intense scrutiny both from scholars in museum studies fields and activists contesting the very existence of musems, relatively little has been written about the ongoing changes in museum practice that the critique has generated.
Cameron Walker, Marketing “Maya” Heritage (May 2005 AN). The Maya tourist sites of Tulum and Coba highlight contrasting viewpoints of the tourist representation of Maya heritage and how slim the local Maya’s grasp is over the marketing of their own heritage. Frank Proschan, Intangible Heritage in Museums: A Vietnamese Institution Leads the Way (May 2005 AN). The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology has always made living cultural heritage a central focus in its exhibition planning and development, public programs and performances, and a broad range of educational activities. Kelly Britt and Christine Chen, When to Hold’em and When to Fold’em: Lessons Learned from the Heritage Profession (April 2005 AN). How does a heritage professional weigh the needs of economic revival for the community against the preservation of history?
Frederic Gleach, To Whom Does Pocahontas Belong?: A Case of Competing Claims (April 2005 AN). Heritage becomes increasingly valued in both economic and intellectual marketplaces, and therefore raises competing claims from all parties, from the colonialists to indigenous groups.
Judith Lynne Hanna, Dance Speaks Out on Societal Issues (April 2005 AN). Whether it is in American exotic dance clubs, Cuba, Western performing arts theaters, a desegregated elementary school or in Nigerian villages, dance is enmeshed in a broader, cultural milieu.
Eugene Lally, Hopi and the Cannibalism Issue: Science and Oral History in Conflict: Science and Oral History in Conflict (April 2005 AN). Archaeologists and scientists have “proven” that cannibalism occurred in the American southwest. They allege that it was the Hopi that committed these violent acts, but have not conferred with living Hopis about whether their oral histories have any memory of such acts. Sabina Magliocco, Indigenousness and the Politics of Spirituality (April 2005 AN). When the sacred spiritual practices of indigenous groups are co-opted by New Agers and mainstream social trends, certain groups have sought to copyright their spiritual practices, an act which highlights the fact that cultural expression comes from a myriad of sources and time, never just one group of people, frozen in time, sharing the same bloodlines.
Peggy Reeves Sanday, Kandimalal: An Aboriginal Heritage Site (April 2005 AN). Kandimalal, also known as the “Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater,” was discovered by the author’s father in 1947; she returns to the site and engages the aboriginal traditional owners and custodians, who tell her of their ancestral relationship with the site, a relationship which had been overlooked by the Western discovery of the site.
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