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Ordinary Histories of People and Place: Inequality, Belonging, and Community Collaboration in Northern Belize (2021)
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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. For the people of contemporary Belize, issues of heritage/ancestry are often narrated through binaries of long-term indigenous continuity or sharp, colonial discontinuity. Yet, for ordinary people these are complicated issues tied to histories of forced movement, social inequality, and violence. Today,...