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Mutual Education. Towards a model of educational co-creation around the archaeological heritage of Mexico
Get PDFToday, the area surrounding the archaeological city of Teotihuacan is suffering a gradual process of destruction due to factors such as: the uncontrolled urban sprawl of neighbouring communities, the conurbation of Mexico City, and the conflictive relationship between the State Institution which is legally responsible for preserving these remains and these centres of population. This represents a multifactorial and convergent problem requiring coordinated action and participation on the part of the Mexican state, the local authorities, and the local population.This article deals with these problems from a generational perspective, based on the fact that, at the present time, thousands of school children and young people from these urban areas are forming criteria or opinions about the problem and learning from the positions taken by different players in the conflict. It is in this context, and via a post-doctoral study period supported by the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y TecnologÃa) (CONACYT) and the Institute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT-CSIC) in Spain, that we have built a strategy for scientific dissemination, named ‘Arqueólogos en Apuros’ (Archaeologists in Trouble), which consists of a multimedia children’s news bulletin presented by puppet reporters, with the aim of promoting processes of reflection among school children regarding the destruction of the pre-Columbian city and the problems implied by this fact. However, we wish to go beyond the act of simply providing information and hope to generate co-creation processes, in which these children can make decisions regarding the topics, formats, and representation of the news bulletin and can become capable of researching the news for themselves. In this paper, the theoretical and methodological evolution of this project is analysed, along with its successes, failures, and future challenges, which may enable us to establish the ways in which these young people relate to their heritage, reaching beyond the authorized discourse, and to help them to demand their right to preserve, defend, and enjoy this heritage within the framework of the expression of their creativity and spontaneity
The Offa's Dyke Collaboratory and the Offa's Dyke Journal
No full textOpening the first volume of a new open-access peer-reviewed academic publication, we are pleased to introduce the Offa's Dyke Journal. This venture stems from the activities of the Offa's Dyke Collaboratory, a research network founded in April 2017 to foster and support new research on the monuments and landscapes of the Anglo-Welsh borderlands and comparative studies of borderlands and frontiers from prehistory to the present. The proceedings of a series of academic and public-facing events have informed the character and direction of the Journal. Moreover, its establishment coincides with the Cadw/Historic England/Offa's Dyke Association-funded Offa's Dyke Conservation Management Plan as well as other new community and research projects on linear earthworks. Funded by the University of Chester and the Offa's Dyke Association, and published online by JAS Arqueologia and print-distributed by Archaeopress, the journal aims to provide a resource for scholars, students and the wider public regarding the archaeology, heritage and history of the Welsh Marches and its linear monuments. It also delivers a much-needed venue for interdisciplinary studies from other times and places
Llywarch Hen's Dyke: Place and Narrative in Early Medieval Wales
No full textDykes must have been important features within the early medieval landscape, but scarcely attract more than cursory discussion in archaeological literature focused on Wales and western Britain. Analysis of a dyke recorded in a boundary clause attached to an eighth-century charter in the Book of Llandaff demonstrates how a multidisciplinary approach can garner new insights into the function and significance of dykes in the early medieval landscape. Llywarch Hen's Dyke defined a large part of the bounds of Llan-gors, a royal estate in the kingdom of Brycheiniog. On the ground the dyke is represent by a prominent agricultural land boundary, but the monument also operated as a 'mnemonic peg' through which oral traditions associated with power and place were narrated
THEORETICAL SUMMARY FOR ANDEAN MINING CONTEXTS: APPROACHES FROM INDUSTRIAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY - Revisión teórica para contextos de minerÃa andinos: un acercamiento desde la arqueologÃa antropológica industrial
No full textThroughout the Andes, there were similar technological and socio-environmental transformations and transitions in the rise and consolidation of industrial capitalism in the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. These are manifested in historically particular cases that make up the socio-environmental universe of Andean mining. This essay exposes theoretical and methodological guidelines for archaeological–historical research projects in Andean mining contexts. These guidelines make it possible to interpret the material conditions of the lives of the workers who inhabited the mining settlements as well as to identify sources toward a holistic view of each case study’s historical particularities. This paper addresses the relationship between methodological concepts and the empirical sources that should be taken into account for the purpose of proposing a research framework for industrial mining in the Central-South Andes
Communicating Cultural Heritage Resources to the Public: Experiences from the Makonde of Mtwara Region, Tanzania.
Get PDFCommunicating cultural heritage to the public has gained popularity in many African countries and the world at large. However,little efforts have been done to promote the practice of public archaeology in Tanzania. The main reason is the dominance of conventional archaeology which is mainly meant for academic consumption. In this kind of practice, the participation of local communities has been passive. This paper explores local communities’ understanding of cultural heritage resources focusing on local communities in the Mtwara Region of Tanzania. The results of this study reveal that little effort has been made by archaeologists and cultural heritage professionals to create awareness among local communities on matters related to archaeology and cultural heritage resources. Apart from discussing the state of local communities’ awareness on archaeology and cultural heritage resources, the paper also discusses the importance of communicating cultural heritage resources to the general public and the need to engage local communities in the conservation and preservation of cultural heritage resources
Making Earthworks Visible: The Example of the Oswestry Heritage Comics Project
No full textThe example of the Oswestry Heritage Comics Project demonstrates how the use of informational comics can raise awareness of heritage which, though highly visible, can be readily overlooked. This has particular implications for linear earthwork monuments which vary in their surviving monumentality and accessibility, including Offa's Dyke and Wat's Dyke, where poor public understanding can contribute to their vulnerability. Comics have the potential to make these monuments better understood, and thus more visible to - and potentially more valued by - the communities which live alongside them
TURISMOFOBIA “AVANT LA LETTRE†EN LA SEVILLA DE 1929: EL VIEJO DEBATE ENTRE AUTENTICIDAD Y MERCANTILIZACIÓN DEL PATRIMONIO - Turism-phobia “avant la lettre†in the Seville of 1929: The old discussion between Authenticity and Heritage Commercialization
Get PDFEl objetivo del presente artÃculo es demostrar la existencia de una corriente de opinión contraria a la turistificación en el contexto de la Exposición Iberoamericana de Sevilla en 1929, la cual puede ser considerada como un hito esencial para la cristalización de la imagen turÃstica de Sevilla y AndalucÃa. Se constata la existencia de un amplio número de intelectuales que se oponen a la imagen que en esas décadas de principios del XX se estaba consolidando, desde el planteamiento de que dicha imagen distorsionaba sus verdaderos rasgos culturales para adaptarse al gusto externo. Para ello se recurre a textos de Chaves Nogales, Núñez de Herrera, GarcÃa Lorca, Antonio y Manuel Machado, Unamuno o Blas Infante, entre otros. Finalmente, se concluye la llamativa vigencia de algunas de las crÃticas realizadas en aquel momento
INTRODUCCIÓN: GRAFITOS, GRAFITI Y GRAFÃAS. LA NECESIDAD HISTÓRICA DE PERMANECER EN LOS MUROS - Introduction: Graphits, Grafitti and Graphias. The historical need to remain in the walls
Get PDFEste monográfico está planteado bajo el tÃtulo especÃfico de “GrafÃas Pre e Históricasâ€, con una clara intención. El objeto de análisis que sirve de marco de referencia a la convocatoria de este dossier es el estudio de los grafitos históricos, por lo que, a primera vista, hubiera resultado más idóneo encabezarlo bajo ese nombre. Las razones que nos han conducido a optar por la denominación final son dos: la primera es la dificultad de definir, y por tanto de encontrar una definición completa y comúnmente aceptada de lo que es o se entiende por grafito; y la segunda es la mayor amplitud epistemológica y cronológica que engloba el término “grafÃaâ€. Somos conscientes de que esta decisión, puede suscitar alguna controversia o disparidad de criterio entre los especialistas y colegas, pero hemos considerado viable esta elección pues puede servir para fomentar los debates en el ámbito de nuestro deseo de conocimiento sobre las diversas formas de comunicación y expresión humanas