Collaborative Exhibit Design in Yucatán, Mexico, amid COVID-19

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Oral History, Coloniality, and Community Collaboration in Latin America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

During the summer of 2020 we developed a project to consider the opinions of Tahcabo residents about a new exhibit for their community museum. We worked as a binational team to invite participation in the process through digital networks, by means of a survey and asynchronous discussion groups. We considered the use of social media for community engagement as an opportunity to reach not only the people currently living in Tahcabo but also those who identify with life in the town but currently live elsewhere. In this presentation we reflect on what we learned about and from the methods of community engagement implemented during the difficult time of the COVID-19 pandemic. We consider the extent to which we were able to build collaborative relationships, highlight local stories, and incorporate community vision in the design of the exhibit and discuss lessons learned.

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• Oral History, Coloniality, and Community Collaboration in Latin America   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

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