Quetzil E Castañeda
Biographic Data
| ID | 77652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Quetzil E Castañeda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Quetzil E |
| FAMILY NAME | Castañeda |
| SIGNATURE | CASTAÑEDA Q E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2544-9560 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Legacies of the Osea ethnography and Maya language field school (1997-2023)
This article discusses the legacies of the Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology (OSEA) field school programs and projects. OSEA was founded in 2003 in Pisté, Yucatán, Mexico, and continues to offer an array of programs to undergraduates, graduate students, non-students, and scholars. OSEA emerges out of a prior field school program (1997-1999). The article considers the difficulties of how to assess the intangible, immeasurable legacies of…
Buscando espiritualmente os Mayas: Rumo a um enfoque decolonial das espiritualidades maias da Nova Era
Este artigo é um ensaio teórico que oferece uma abordagem ao estudo da busca espiritual da Nova Era em geral e, em particular, ao estudo do espiritualismo maia da Nova Era. O marco teórico da "busca espiritual" e do "cultic milieu" tem sido especialmente produtivo no que diz respeito à relação entre emergentes tecnologias espirituais de subjetividade, formas de modernidade e lógicas capitalistas de consumismo. No entanto, este artigo identifica d…
Visión etnográfica: Imaginar el iknal maya
Ethnography In-Sight: Bridging Protest Across Generations
Ethnography In-Sight: Diasporic Imaginings
Editor's Introduction
Editor's Introduction
Editor's Introduction
Editor's Introduction
The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond
Winner of the 2020 Edward M. Bruner Book Award from the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group** "Leite, Castaneda, and Adams's volume is a beautiful retrospective of the enduring importance of Ed Bruner's work and legacy in our field, and we have no doubt that it will be used as a central historical, theoretical, and teaching text by many." - Prize Committee What does it mean to study tourism ethnographically? How has the ethnography of tourism …
Afterword: Beyond Anthropology
Introducing Provocations/Provocaciones/Provações: Vision and Initiative
Introducing Events: A New Journal Initiative in Ethnographic Writing
Introduction to Roseberry-Nash Prize Articles
In Search of Adventure: Simmel and Similar Travels Among Ruins
This article explores the idea of Adventure as an analytical concept for tourism ethnography. The first task is to understand Simmel's concept of adventure by re-reading it in relation to Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, and Boon. The second task is to make use of Simmel and similar concepts of adventure in the analysis of a travel story. This travelogue happens to be an ethnography that includes travel to Maya pyramids and is written by ethnograph…
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…
The 'Past' as Transcultural Space: Using Ethnographic Installation in the Study of Archaeology
This article presents a methodology of ethnographic fieldwork that can be used in the ethnographic study of archaeology. The methodology is called ethnographic installation and was developed in the context of research on the social contexts of archaeology in Yucatán, México. The core idea is to develop an exhibition of materials relevant to a community, and design this installation as a site of ethnographic fieldwork. This article discusses the t…
Ethnographic Archaeologies: Reflections on Stakeholders and Archaeological Practices
Ethnographic archaeology has emerged as a form of inquiry into archaeological dilemmas that arise as scholars question older, more positivistic paradigms. Ethnographic Archaeologies describes diverse methods, objectives, and rationalities currently employed in the making of engaged and collaborative archaeological research.The contributors to this volume, for example, understand ethnographic archaeology variously as a means of critical engagement…
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 Invisible Theatre of Ethnography: Performative Principles of Fieldwork
The Invisible Theatre of Ethnography: Performative Principles of Fieldwork I have been arguing for some time now that ethnography is going to change or is changing by the same means that it already has within it—not by obsessing over its political efficacy with the text-cultures it invents—but by opening ethnography to its own performance and performativity. —Abdel Hernández, September 17, 1997.1 I set out to make the case that fieldwork is, or s…
Ethnography in the Forest: An Analysis of Ethics in the Morals of Anthropology
In arguing for a differentiation of ethics from morals as well as between ethics and morals in the domains of ethnography and anthropology, an analysis of ethical issues described by Levi-Strauss in Tristes Tropiques (1992) enables a critical commentary on, first, the thematization of ethics in the historiography of anthropology and, second, a recent analysis by Peter Pels of the double focus, or dual orientation, of ethics in relation to both sp…
Community Collaboration and Ethnographic Intervention: Dialogues in the Pisté Maya Art World of Chichén Itzá
It would be great if Pisté were to be recognized the world over for its artisanry. To recognize and acknowledge the person that makes it is the greatest achievement that you would have. It would be magnificent (Juan Gutierrez, Pisté artist, July 8, 1999)
The Carnegie Mission and Vision of Science: Institutional Contexts of Maya Archaeology and Espionage
2. The Carnegie Mission and Vision of ScienceInstitutional Contexts of Maya Archaeology and Espionage Quetzil E. Castañeda (bio) In the United States, the major alternative [to Rockefeller funding of anthropology] came from the Carnegie Institution, which was heavily oriented to physical anthropology and archaeology; such general ethnographic work as it sustained was an outgrowth of its interests in Mayan archaeology. George W. Stocking Jr., Phil…
Between Pure and Applied Research: Experimental Ethnography in a Transcultural Tourist Art World
This article reports on an ethnographic project designed and conducted as an experimental fieldwork practice. The research was a study of the modern Maya artwork of Pisté, Yucatán, that developed in the context of archaeological heritage tourism at the Maya site of Chichén Itzá, México. The article discusses how the research was designed to explore experimental fieldwork as an alternative path between pure and applied research paradigms. The use …
The Invisible Theatre of Ethnography: Performative Principles of Fieldwork
The Invisible Theatre of Ethnography: Performative Principles of Fieldwork I have been arguing for some time now that ethnography is going to change or is changing by the same means that it already has within it—not by obsessing over its political efficacy with the text-cultures it invents—but by opening ethnography to its own performance and performativity. —Abdel Hernández, September 17, 1997.1 I set out to make the case that fieldwork is, or s…
Ethnography in the Forest: An Analysis of Ethics in the Morals of Anthropology
In arguing for a differentiation of ethics from morals as well as between ethics and morals in the domains of ethnography and anthropology, an analysis of ethical issues described by Levi-Strauss in Tristes Tropiques (1992) enables a critical commentary on, first, the thematization of ethics in the historiography of anthropology and, second, a recent analysis by Peter Pels of the double focus, or dual orientation, of ethics in relation to both sp…
Art-writing in the modern Maya art world of Chichén Itzá: Transcultural ethnography and experimental fieldwork
In this article I examine the modern Maya art world of Chichén Itzá, México. My ethnographic focus is the political history and technical and aesthetic development of the Pisté Maya art "tradition" that emerged within the transcultural contexts of the anthropological fascination with and touristic consumption of the Maya. I also describe the experimental ethnography project that was developed to study the transcultural dynamics of the Chichén art…
The Progress that Chose a Village: Measuring zero-degree culture and the 'impact' of anthropology
Reprenant les travaux de Redfield sur les Chan Kom a Chichen Itza et de M. Steggerda sur les Piste, qui avaient respectivement montre l'impact positif et l'absence d'effets permanents sur le terrain etudie, l'A. s'efforce de detruire les arguments de ces deux affirmations. Il devoile la logique et la rhetorique des arguments et revele les contextes ideologiques, politiques et economiques communs qui ont motive ces conclusions. Les notions de prog…
The 'Past' as Transcultural Space: Using Ethnographic Installation in the Study of Archaeology
This article presents a methodology of ethnographic fieldwork that can be used in the ethnographic study of archaeology. The methodology is called ethnographic installation and was developed in the context of research on the social contexts of archaeology in Yucatán, México. The core idea is to develop an exhibition of materials relevant to a community, and design this installation as a site of ethnographic fieldwork. This article discusses the t…
New and Old Social Movements Measuring Pisté, from the" Mouth of the Well" to the 107th Municipio of Yucatán
This essay explores the history of the political structure of town and municipal authority in a specific case study of a Yucatec Maya community. The town is Pisté, a community that has become a significant tourist center that provides services for the nearby archaeological and tourist site of Chichén Itzá. A descriptive history of the town, mostly based in secondary literature and key primary sources from archives, is presented with two goals in …
Stocking's Historiography of Influence: The `Story of Boas', Gamio and Redfield at the Cross-`Road to Light
This article is a critical assessment of George Stocking's historiography of influence and his genealogy of Boasian anthropology. Specifically, Stocking argues that Gamio and Redfield and the research projects and forms of anthropology associated with them were influenced by Boas and/or manifested and participated in, what his analyses constitute as, the Boasian school, tradition or paradigm. This contribution to the historiography of the field o…
Between Pure and Applied Research: Experimental Ethnography in a Transcultural Tourist Art World
This article reports on an ethnographic project designed and conducted as an experimental fieldwork practice. The research was a study of the modern Maya artwork of Pisté, Yucatán, that developed in the context of archaeological heritage tourism at the Maya site of Chichén Itzá, México. The article discusses how the research was designed to explore experimental fieldwork as an alternative path between pure and applied research paradigms. The use …
The Carnegie Mission and Vision of Science: Institutional Contexts of Maya Archaeology and Espionage
2. The Carnegie Mission and Vision of ScienceInstitutional Contexts of Maya Archaeology and Espionage Quetzil E. Castañeda (bio) In the United States, the major alternative [to Rockefeller funding of anthropology] came from the Carnegie Institution, which was heavily oriented to physical anthropology and archaeology; such general ethnographic work as it sustained was an outgrowth of its interests in Mayan archaeology. George W. Stocking Jr., Phil…
Approaching Ruins a Photo‐Ethnographic Essay on the Busy Intersections of Chichén Itzá
Tourism "Wars" in the Yucatan
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…
Buscando espiritualmente os Mayas: Rumo a um enfoque decolonial das espiritualidades maias da Nova Era
Este artigo é um ensaio teórico que oferece uma abordagem ao estudo da busca espiritual da Nova Era em geral e, em particular, ao estudo do espiritualismo maia da Nova Era. O marco teórico da "busca espiritual" e do "cultic milieu" tem sido especialmente produtivo no que diz respeito à relação entre emergentes tecnologias espirituais de subjetividade, formas de modernidade e lógicas capitalistas de consumismo. No entanto, este artigo identifica d…
Visión etnográfica: Imaginar el iknal maya
Introducing Events: A New Journal Initiative in Ethnographic Writing
Reading National Geographic
The Progress that Chose a Village: Measuring zero-degree culture and the 'impact' of anthropology
Reprenant les travaux de Redfield sur les Chan Kom a Chichen Itza et de M. Steggerda sur les Piste, qui avaient respectivement montre l'impact positif et l'absence d'effets permanents sur le terrain etudie, l'A. s'efforce de detruire les arguments de ces deux affirmations. Il devoile la logique et la rhetorique des arguments et revele les contextes ideologiques, politiques et economiques communs qui ont motive ces conclusions. Les notions de prog…
On the correct training of indios in the handicraft market at chichen itza: Tactics and tactility of gender, class, race and state
In 1983, an invasion by 300 vendors of food, beverage and artisanry began of the archaeological-touristic site of Chichén, Itzá, México; this provoked several crises. Here I consider one dimension of this crisis and conflictual situation that deals with the state attempt to impose control and proper order on the invading venders. This essay develops an analysis of the ambivalences and duplicitous dynamics of power so as to 1)reconsider the nature…
On the correct training of indio s in the handicraft market at chichén itzá: Tactics and tactility of gender, class, race and state
In 1983, an invasion by 300 vendors of food, beverage and artisanry began of the archaeological‐touristic site of Chichén, Itzá, México; this provoked several crises. Here I consider one dimension of this crisis and conflictual situation that deals with the state attempt to impose control and proper order on the invading venders. This essay develops an analysis of the ambivalences and duplicitous dynamics of power so as to 1)reconsider the nature…
In the Museum of Maya Culture: Touring Chichen Itza
In the Museum of Maya Culture: Touring 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…
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…
New and Old Social Movements Measuring Pisté, from the" Mouth of the Well" to the 107th Municipio of Yucatán
This essay explores the history of the political structure of town and municipal authority in a specific case study of a Yucatec Maya community. The town is Pisté, a community that has become a significant tourist center that provides services for the nearby archaeological and tourist site of Chichén Itzá. A descriptive history of the town, mostly based in secondary literature and key primary sources from archives, is presented with two goals in …
Stocking's Historiography of Influence: The `Story of Boas', Gamio and Redfield at the Cross-`Road to Light
This article is a critical assessment of George Stocking's historiography of influence and his genealogy of Boasian anthropology. Specifically, Stocking argues that Gamio and Redfield and the research projects and forms of anthropology associated with them were influenced by Boas and/or manifested and participated in, what his analyses constitute as, the Boasian school, tradition or paradigm. This contribution to the historiography of the field o…
“We Are Not Indigenous!”: An Introduction to the Maya Identity of Yucatan
"We Are Not Indigenous!": An Introduction to the Maya Identity of Yucatan1
Art-writing in the modern Maya art world of Chichén Itzá: Transcultural ethnography and experimental fieldwork
In this article I examine the modern Maya art world of Chichén Itzá, México. My ethnographic focus is the political history and technical and aesthetic development of the Pisté Maya art "tradition" that emerged within the transcultural contexts of the anthropological fascination with and touristic consumption of the Maya. I also describe the experimental ethnography project that was developed to study the transcultural dynamics of the Chichén art…
Community Collaboration and Ethnographic Intervention: Dialogues in the Pisté Maya Art World of Chichén Itzá
It would be great if Pisté were to be recognized the world over for its artisanry. To recognize and acknowledge the person that makes it is the greatest achievement that you would have. It would be magnificent (Juan Gutierrez, Pisté artist, July 8, 1999)
The Carnegie Mission and Vision of Science: Institutional Contexts of Maya Archaeology and Espionage
2. The Carnegie Mission and Vision of ScienceInstitutional Contexts of Maya Archaeology and Espionage Quetzil E. Castañeda (bio) In the United States, the major alternative [to Rockefeller funding of anthropology] came from the Carnegie Institution, which was heavily oriented to physical anthropology and archaeology; such general ethnographic work as it sustained was an outgrowth of its interests in Mayan archaeology. George W. Stocking Jr., Phil…
Between Pure and Applied Research: Experimental Ethnography in a Transcultural Tourist Art World
This article reports on an ethnographic project designed and conducted as an experimental fieldwork practice. The research was a study of the modern Maya artwork of Pisté, Yucatán, that developed in the context of archaeological heritage tourism at the Maya site of Chichén Itzá, México. The article discusses how the research was designed to explore experimental fieldwork as an alternative path between pure and applied research paradigms. The use …
Tourism "Wars" in the Yucatan
The Invisible Theatre of Ethnography: Performative Principles of Fieldwork
The Invisible Theatre of Ethnography: Performative Principles of Fieldwork I have been arguing for some time now that ethnography is going to change or is changing by the same means that it already has within it—not by obsessing over its political efficacy with the text-cultures it invents—but by opening ethnography to its own performance and performativity. —Abdel Hernández, September 17, 1997.1 I set out to make the case that fieldwork is, or s…
Ethnography in the Forest: An Analysis of Ethics in the Morals of Anthropology
In arguing for a differentiation of ethics from morals as well as between ethics and morals in the domains of ethnography and anthropology, an analysis of ethical issues described by Levi-Strauss in Tristes Tropiques (1992) enables a critical commentary on, first, the thematization of ethics in the historiography of anthropology and, second, a recent analysis by Peter Pels of the double focus, or dual orientation, of ethics in relation to both sp…
Ethnographic Archaeologies: Reflections on Stakeholders and Archaeological Practices
Ethnographic archaeology has emerged as a form of inquiry into archaeological dilemmas that arise as scholars question older, more positivistic paradigms. Ethnographic Archaeologies describes diverse methods, objectives, and rationalities currently employed in the making of engaged and collaborative archaeological research.The contributors to this volume, for example, understand ethnographic archaeology variously as a means of critical engagement…
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 'Past' as Transcultural Space: Using Ethnographic Installation in the Study of Archaeology
This article presents a methodology of ethnographic fieldwork that can be used in the ethnographic study of archaeology. The methodology is called ethnographic installation and was developed in the context of research on the social contexts of archaeology in Yucatán, México. The core idea is to develop an exhibition of materials relevant to a community, and design this installation as a site of ethnographic fieldwork. This article discusses the t…
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…
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