Helaine Silverman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helaine Silverman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Silverman |
| SIGNATURE | SILVERMAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 74 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 264 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 11 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Koji Mizoguchi & Claire Smith. 2019. Global social archaeologies: Making a difference in a world of strangers. London: Routledge; 978-1-62958-307-5 paperback £25
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Silverman, Helaine
World Heritage and Human Rights
International Council on Monuments and Sites (Icomos): Scientific Committees and Relationship to Unesco
Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy (CHAMP)
“New 7 Wonders of the World” Campaign
Heritage Theory
The Inca in the Plaza: Debating change in the World Heritage historic urban centre of Cusco, Peru
A statue known locally as the ‘Piel Roja’ (‘Red Skin’, a Native American in leggings, mocassins, cape, and carrying a bow and arrow) stood atop the Belle Époque fountain in the centre of Cusco’s Plaza de Armas for almost a century until it was toppled in 1969. The fountain remained without a crowning element until 2011 when the then mayor erected a new statue, representing an Inca king, atop it. The ongoing controversy over this statue can serve …
Heritage of Death: Landscapes of Emotion, Memory and Practice
Managing the Past, Engaging the Present: An Interview with Douglas C. Comer, President, Icahm (Icomos International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management)
El neoperuano: Arqueología, estilo nacional y paisaje urbano en Lima, 1910-1940
This pithy book is a must-read for anyone interested in the intersections of urban landscapes, nationalism, political and social power, postcolonialism, art and architecture at the service of the state, indigenismo, diasporic communities, and the appropriation of the archaeological past for contemporary goals. Written clearly, cogently argued, well documented, and abundantly illustrated (with congratulations to the press for the high quality of i…
The Measurement by Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) of Disturbance Within the Nasca World Heritage Site
In this paper we report on our use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) as a means of monitoring the Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Pampas de Jumana World Heritage Site in Peru, where the colossal ground drawings, popularly known as the Nasca Lines, are found. Our research to date indicates that the environment in which the Nasca geoglyphs are found, and the nature of the geoglyphs themselves, are suited perfectly for investigation by SAR. SAR als…
Andean Archaeology II: Art, Landscape, and Society
Encounters with Popular Pasts: Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture
Encounters with Popular Pasts: Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture
Branding Peru: Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture in the Marketing Strategy of PromPerú
Tourism and archaeology: Sustainable meeting grounds
Corporate responsibility for cultural heritage: Conservation, Sustainable Development and Corporate Reputation
Cultural Heritage Politics in China
What's in a name?A Geography of Heritagerevisited
This article is a comment on: Tubridge et al., 2012. Decennial reflections on a ‘geography of heritage’ (2000). International Journal of Heritage Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2012.695038
Andean Archaeology Ii: "Art, Landscape, And Society"
Andean Archaeology I: Variations in Sociopolitical Organization
Epilogue: Perspectives on Community Archaeology
Border wars: The ongoing temple dispute between Thailand and Cambodia and Unesco's World Heritage List
This article traces the history of the ongoing tension between Thailand and Cambodia over a beautiful Khmer temple located on the unresolved border between the two countries. The struggle is noteworthy for its transethnic character, the deep and imbricated history of the players, and the fight’s intersection with dramatic contemporary politics in both countries. The paper argues that the dispute implicates existential challenges to ancient and co…
The Ancient Andean Village: Marcaya in Prehispanic Nasca - by Vaughn, Kevin J
Touring Ancient Times: The Present and Presented Past in Contemporary Peru
Peru offers important perspectives for understanding the presence of the past, particularly as expressed on various landscapes of national and local identity, social and political power, and economic development. As Peru's archaeological past is converted into a vast tourist project, contradictory, negotiated, and contested relationships are played out in a constantly changing drama, with ruins, indigenous people, ordinary city residents, foreign…
Reinventing the Museum: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift
Reinventing the Museum: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift. Gail Anderson, ed. Marburg an der Lahn: Basilisken Press, 2004. 401 pp
A Cache of 48 Nasca Trophy Heads from Cerro Carapo, Peru
The recent discovery of a cache of 48 Nasca severed heads provides archaeologists with the largest-known associated and provenienced corpus of this material. Although recovery of the skulls was conducted as a salvage operation and the wider spatial context of the find is still unknown, preliminary physical anthropological analysis of the skeletal material, along with archaeological comparison of the cache, provide valuable information on the natu…
The archaeological identification of an ancient Peruvian pilgrimage center
Nasca society of the south coast of Peru has been interpreted as a small militaristic empire led from an urban capital called Cahuachi. Recent investigations, however, yielded no data in support of that reconstruction. Rather, excavations at Cahuachi revealed the site to be an empty ceremonial center with little evidence of a dense, permanent, domestic occupation. Yet, in the construction fills of the site's many mounds, there is a quantity of re…
Paracas in Nazca: New Data on the Early Horizon Occupation of the Rio Grande de Nazca Drainage, Peru
Nasca culture and, particularly, Nasca ceramic iconography are held to evolve directly and smoothly out of antecedent Paracas. Yet the data reviewed in this article indicate that Paracas remains in the Río Grande de Nazca drainage, the heartland of Nasca culture on the south coast of Peru, are limited in nature, a fact that makes it difficult to derive Nasca from Paracas in Nazca. In contrast, there are rich and abundant Paracas remains in the Ic…
Handbook of South American Archaeology
Cahuachi: Non-Urban Cultural Complexity on the South Coast of Peru
The association of urbanism and complex society is common in archaeological literature, but the definition of urbanism and the identification of urban settlements in the field have been plagued by inconsistencies. Nowhere is this clearer than in the continuing canon that there was an urban tradition on the south coast of Peru that reached its height in the late Early Horizon (ca. 400–1 B.C.) and Early Intermediate Period (ca. A.C. 1–600) and then…
The Shape of Inca History. Narrative and Architecture in an Andean Empire
New evidence for the date of the Nazca lines
Surface features that possess no useful stratigraphy and are not, by their own nature, informative about their age, are notoriously hard to date. A study of associations now defines with good confidence the dates of the surface arrangements of stones and of cleared areas that make up some of the celebrated Nazca lines, Peru
Border wars: The ongoing temple dispute between Thailand and Cambodia and Unesco's World Heritage List
This article traces the history of the ongoing tension between Thailand and Cambodia over a beautiful Khmer temple located on the unresolved border between the two countries. The struggle is noteworthy for its transethnic character, the deep and imbricated history of the players, and the fight’s intersection with dramatic contemporary politics in both countries. The paper argues that the dispute implicates existential challenges to ancient and co…
Introduction: The Space and Place of Death
Archaeologists typically study death from the perspective of mortuary patterns, devising classifications of disposal facilities and their dead inhabitants along parameters such as technique and materials of tomb construction, position and orientation of the deceased, and paleobiology of the interred populations. From this information a society's organization and level of sociopolitical complexity is reconstructed. Less common among archaeologists…
Epilogue: Perspectives on Community Archaeology
Ethnoarchaeology in Action
The First Field Season of Excavations at the Alto del Molino Site, Pisco Valley, Peru
Little archaeological fieldwork has been conducted in the Pisco Valley on the south coast of Peru and Pisco has long been regarded as inconsequential in the cultural dynamics of the region's prehistory. Yet a critical review of the literature and, especially, the results of recent excavations at the Alto del Molino site reveal that Pisco played an important role in the development of social complexity on the south coast at the end of the Early Ho…
Managing the Past, Engaging the Present: An Interview with Douglas C. Comer, President, Icahm (Icomos International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management)
Mayor Daniel Estrada and the Plaza de Armas of Cuzco, Peru
Groovin'to ancient Peru: A critical analysis of Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove
Disney animated movies have received abundant critical attention over the past 30 years as a quintessentially American manifestation of popular culture and as an expression of corporate and hegemonic ideology. A recent blockbuster film prompts me, as an archaeologist, to consider another aspect of this genre. I am interested in why Disney's The Emperor's New Groove explicitly does not name the archaeological society in which its action is situate…
Archaeology and the 1997 Peruvian Hostage Crisis
Dans cet article l'A donne un exemple de la recuperation de l'archeologie par le monde politique actuel au Perou a travers l'operation de sauvetage du site archeologique (et de son temple) de Chavin de Huantar et la prise d'otages a Lima en 1997. Certains groupes revolutionnaires tels l'APRA (Alianza Popular revolucionaria Americana) s'approprient des icones des civilisations passees comme le condor chavin. Quant au site de Chavin de Huantar, il …
Anthropologist as Film Star
The Inca in the Plaza: Debating change in the World Heritage historic urban centre of Cusco, Peru
A statue known locally as the ‘Piel Roja’ (‘Red Skin’, a Native American in leggings, mocassins, cape, and carrying a bow and arrow) stood atop the Belle Époque fountain in the centre of Cusco’s Plaza de Armas for almost a century until it was toppled in 1969. The fountain remained without a crowning element until 2011 when the then mayor erected a new statue, representing an Inca king, atop it. The ongoing controversy over this statue can serve …
Tourism and archaeology: Sustainable meeting grounds
Subverting the Venue: A Critical Exhibition of Pre-Columbian Objects at Krannert Art Museum
My temporary exhibition in Krannert Art Museum, The Social Context of Violence in Ancient Peruvian Art (March 27-May 23, 2004), is transgressive and self-critical. While presenting a small number of objects in the university art museum's collection that depict ancient violence (battles, human sacrifice, and trophy head taking), the exhibition simultaneously argues that the objects themselves are the result of violence, specifically to the archaeo…
Cultural Evolution, Political Organization, and Ritual Practice in the Central Andes
Review Article| October 01 2003 Cultural Evolution, Political Organization, and Ritual Practice in the Central Andes Helaine Silverman Helaine Silverman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 713–724. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-50-4-713 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Helaine Silverman; Cultural Evolution, Political Organization…
Chapter 11. Narratives of Identity and History in Modern Cemeteries of Lima, Peru
Cemeteries are an important and multidimensional aspect of mortuary behavior. They are a rich source of information on a society's culture, sociopolitical organization, ethnic identities, economic relationships, and ideology. Cemeteries are dynamic loci, able to convey information to the living and subject to continuing interpretation. The architect of Lima's earliest cemetery attempted to fix its meaning through the plan of the burial ground he …
Monumentos y monumentalidad
Helaine Silverman muestra en este artículo las complejas implicancias que tiene para la perspectiva arqueológica las relaciones entre las construcciones monumentales y la organización político-social. Tal temática la desarrolla para el caso de la cultura Nasca y en especial, el sitio monumental de Cahuachi
Cahuachi: Non-Urban Cultural Complexity on the South Coast of Peru
The association of urbanism and complex society is common in archaeological literature, but the definition of urbanism and the identification of urban settlements in the field have been plagued by inconsistencies. Nowhere is this clearer than in the continuing canon that there was an urban tradition on the south coast of Peru that reached its height in the late Early Horizon (ca. 400–1 B.C.) and Early Intermediate Period (ca. A.C. 1–600) and then…
V. The Early Nasca Pilgrimage Center of Cahuachi and the Nazca Lines: Anthropological and Archaeological Perspectives
New evidence for the date of the Nazca lines
Surface features that possess no useful stratigraphy and are not, by their own nature, informative about their age, are notoriously hard to date. A study of associations now defines with good confidence the dates of the surface arrangements of stones and of cleared areas that make up some of the celebrated Nazca lines, Peru
Archeology: The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru . Michael E. Moseley
A Cache of 48 Nasca Trophy Heads from Cerro Carapo, Peru
The recent discovery of a cache of 48 Nasca severed heads provides archaeologists with the largest-known associated and provenienced corpus of this material. Although recovery of the skulls was conducted as a salvage operation and the wider spatial context of the find is still unknown, preliminary physical anthropological analysis of the skeletal material, along with archaeological comparison of the cache, provide valuable information on the natu…
Paracas in Nazca: New Data on the Early Horizon Occupation of the Rio Grande de Nazca Drainage, Peru
Nasca culture and, particularly, Nasca ceramic iconography are held to evolve directly and smoothly out of antecedent Paracas. Yet the data reviewed in this article indicate that Paracas remains in the Río Grande de Nazca drainage, the heartland of Nasca culture on the south coast of Peru, are limited in nature, a fact that makes it difficult to derive Nasca from Paracas in Nazca. In contrast, there are rich and abundant Paracas remains in the Ic…
The archaeological identification of an ancient Peruvian pilgrimage center
Nasca society of the south coast of Peru has been interpreted as a small militaristic empire led from an urban capital called Cahuachi. Recent investigations, however, yielded no data in support of that reconstruction. Rather, excavations at Cahuachi revealed the site to be an empty ceremonial center with little evidence of a dense, permanent, domestic occupation. Yet, in the construction fills of the site's many mounds, there is a quantity of re…
Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca World
The Formative Period on the south coast of Peru: A critical review
The First Field Season of Excavations at the Alto del Molino Site, Pisco Valley, Peru
Little archaeological fieldwork has been conducted in the Pisco Valley on the south coast of Peru and Pisco has long been regarded as inconsequential in the cultural dynamics of the region's prehistory. Yet a critical review of the literature and, especially, the results of recent excavations at the Alto del Molino site reveal that Pisco played an important role in the development of social complexity on the south coast at the end of the Early Ho…
Anthropologist as Film Star
Archaeology and the 1997 Peruvian Hostage Crisis
Dans cet article l'A donne un exemple de la recuperation de l'archeologie par le monde politique actuel au Perou a travers l'operation de sauvetage du site archeologique (et de son temple) de Chavin de Huantar et la prise d'otages a Lima en 1997. Certains groupes revolutionnaires tels l'APRA (Alianza Popular revolucionaria Americana) s'approprient des icones des civilisations passees comme le condor chavin. Quant au site de Chavin de Huantar, il …
The Shape of Inca History. Narrative and Architecture in an Andean Empire
Differentiating Paracas Necropolis and Early Nasca Textiles
From Art to Material Culture
Issues of Cultural Production and Reproduction
Andean Archaeology II
Andean Archaeology I
Theorizing Variations in Andean Sociopolitical Organization
Writing the Andes with a Capital ‘A’
Introduction: The Space and Place of Death
Archaeologists typically study death from the perspective of mortuary patterns, devising classifications of disposal facilities and their dead inhabitants along parameters such as technique and materials of tomb construction, position and orientation of the deceased, and paleobiology of the interred populations. From this information a society's organization and level of sociopolitical complexity is reconstructed. Less common among archaeologists…
Chapter 11. Narratives of Identity and History in Modern Cemeteries of Lima, Peru
Cemeteries are an important and multidimensional aspect of mortuary behavior. They are a rich source of information on a society's culture, sociopolitical organization, ethnic identities, economic relationships, and ideology. Cemeteries are dynamic loci, able to convey information to the living and subject to continuing interpretation. The architect of Lima's earliest cemetery attempted to fix its meaning through the plan of the burial ground he …
Touring Ancient Times: The Present and Presented Past in Contemporary Peru
Peru offers important perspectives for understanding the presence of the past, particularly as expressed on various landscapes of national and local identity, social and political power, and economic development. As Peru's archaeological past is converted into a vast tourist project, contradictory, negotiated, and contested relationships are played out in a constantly changing drama, with ruins, indigenous people, ordinary city residents, foreign…
Groovin'to ancient Peru: A critical analysis of Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove
Disney animated movies have received abundant critical attention over the past 30 years as a quintessentially American manifestation of popular culture and as an expression of corporate and hegemonic ideology. A recent blockbuster film prompts me, as an archaeologist, to consider another aspect of this genre. I am interested in why Disney's The Emperor's New Groove explicitly does not name the archaeological society in which its action is situate…
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