Quetzil Castañeda
Biographic Data
| ID | 146421 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Quetzil Castañeda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Quetzil |
| FAMILY NAME | Castañeda |
| SIGNATURE | CASTAÑEDA Q |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Topography of Maya Culture, On the Political and Scriptural Economy of the Modernizing Maya
Este ensayo busca el origen de la caracterización cultural, o sea la metanarrativa y master trope de los mayas de Yucatán como un pueblo "modernizándose". Retoma las representadotes etnográficas de Chan Kom escritas por Redfield y Villa Rojas, y la de Pisté escrita por Morris Steggerda para que, a través de dicha comparación y reconstrucción textual, el autor demuestre, "cómo y por qué es posible que la 'cultura maya' se haya construido textualme…
The Neoliberal Imperative of Tourism: Rights and Legitimization in the Unwto Global Code of Ethics For Tourism
This article discusses the emergence of tourism ethics in tourism studies. It focuses on the contradictions that are expressed in the United Nations World Tourism Organization's (UNWTO) Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (World Tourism Organization 2007[1999]). These contradictions lead to politically contentious issues involving heritage and point to ethical conflict for anthropologists who study tourism and, particularly, for those who are invol…
Ethnographic Archaeologies: Reflections on Stakeholders and Archaeological Practices
1 The Ethnographic Turn in Archaeology: Research Positioning and Reflexivity in Ethnographic Archaeologies 2 A Critical Assessment of Ethnography in Archaeology 3 A Dangerously Elusive Method: Disciplines, Histories, and the Limits of Reflexivity 4 The Pageantry of Archaeology 5 The Foundations of Archaeology 6 The Location of Archaeology 7 Real People or Reconstructed People? Ethnocritical Archaeology, Ethnography, and Community-Building
Post/Colonial Toponymy: Writing Forward 'in Reverse
Amerigo Vespucci the voyager arrives from the sea. A crusader standing erect, his body in armor, he bears the European weapons of meaning ... . Before him is the Indian ‘America,’ a nude woman ... an unnamed presence of difference ... the conqueror will write the body of the other and trace there his own history ... . She will be ‘Latin’ America ... initiated here is a colonization of the body by the discourse of power. This is writing that conqu…
Approaching Ruins a Photo‐Ethnographic Essay on the Busy Intersections of Chichén Itzá
In the Museum of Maya Culture: Touring Chichén Itzá
In the Museum of Culture: Touring Chichen Itza. QUETZIL CASTANEDA. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996; 341 pp. This historical ethnography provides a refreshing perspective on the strategic relationships among anthropology, tourism, and culture(s). In a profound effort to investigate the of in Yucatan, Castaneda's Guidebook to the Archaeology of Chichen is a palimpsest: each chapter sets out to reveal a layer of a complex stratigrap…
In the Museum of Maya Culture: Touring Chichen Itza
Reading National Geographic
Approaching Ruins a Photo‐Ethnographic Essay on the Busy Intersections of Chichén Itzá
Post/Colonial Toponymy: Writing Forward 'in Reverse
Amerigo Vespucci the voyager arrives from the sea. A crusader standing erect, his body in armor, he bears the European weapons of meaning ... . Before him is the Indian ‘America,’ a nude woman ... an unnamed presence of difference ... the conqueror will write the body of the other and trace there his own history ... . She will be ‘Latin’ America ... initiated here is a colonization of the body by the discourse of power. This is writing that conqu…
Reading National Geographic
In the Museum of Maya Culture: Touring Chichen Itza
In the Museum of Maya Culture: Touring Chichén Itzá
In the Museum of Culture: Touring Chichen Itza. QUETZIL CASTANEDA. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996; 341 pp. This historical ethnography provides a refreshing perspective on the strategic relationships among anthropology, tourism, and culture(s). In a profound effort to investigate the of in Yucatan, Castaneda's Guidebook to the Archaeology of Chichen is a palimpsest: each chapter sets out to reveal a layer of a complex stratigrap…
Approaching Ruins a Photo‐Ethnographic Essay on the Busy Intersections of Chichén Itzá
Post/Colonial Toponymy: Writing Forward 'in Reverse
Amerigo Vespucci the voyager arrives from the sea. A crusader standing erect, his body in armor, he bears the European weapons of meaning ... . Before him is the Indian ‘America,’ a nude woman ... an unnamed presence of difference ... the conqueror will write the body of the other and trace there his own history ... . She will be ‘Latin’ America ... initiated here is a colonization of the body by the discourse of power. This is writing that conqu…
Ethnographic Archaeologies: Reflections on Stakeholders and Archaeological Practices
1 The Ethnographic Turn in Archaeology: Research Positioning and Reflexivity in Ethnographic Archaeologies 2 A Critical Assessment of Ethnography in Archaeology 3 A Dangerously Elusive Method: Disciplines, Histories, and the Limits of Reflexivity 4 The Pageantry of Archaeology 5 The Foundations of Archaeology 6 The Location of Archaeology 7 Real People or Reconstructed People? Ethnocritical Archaeology, Ethnography, and Community-Building
The Neoliberal Imperative of Tourism: Rights and Legitimization in the Unwto Global Code of Ethics For Tourism
This article discusses the emergence of tourism ethics in tourism studies. It focuses on the contradictions that are expressed in the United Nations World Tourism Organization's (UNWTO) Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (World Tourism Organization 2007[1999]). These contradictions lead to politically contentious issues involving heritage and point to ethical conflict for anthropologists who study tourism and, particularly, for those who are invol…
Topography of Maya Culture, On the Political and Scriptural Economy of the Modernizing Maya
Este ensayo busca el origen de la caracterización cultural, o sea la metanarrativa y master trope de los mayas de Yucatán como un pueblo "modernizándose". Retoma las representadotes etnográficas de Chan Kom escritas por Redfield y Villa Rojas, y la de Pisté escrita por Morris Steggerda para que, a través de dicha comparación y reconstrucción textual, el autor demuestre, "cómo y por qué es posible que la 'cultura maya' se haya construido textualme…
Archaeology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education (3 works) · Latin American history and culture (3 works) · Maya (3 works)