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Kneeling on bare earth, the Priestess takes a handful of store-bought confections from their glinting metallic bag and tosses them into a living cache. Candles and carved stones protrude at the sides of this hole, marking intrusions made and remade so many times they have now been lost to memory (even as their matter persists). Following Victor Buchli and Gavin Lucas’ call to study contemporary material culture archaeologically, this paper uses and presents ethnographic data collected...
Embedded Rituals: Examining Caching Practices in Public Buildings at Cerro de la Virgen, Oaxaca, Mexico (2015)
Examining the construction and use of public spaces in precolumbian Mesoamerica has been productive in revealing the ways in which people constituted local communities. As settings for activities such as feasting, cemetery burial, and caching ceremonies, public buildings brought together living people, ancestors, divinities and religious objects through practices that reproduced local histories and identities. Recent research on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, Mexico has focused on the public,...