Andes, Ecuador, Salasaca (Other Keyword)
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How to Invent Your Past. Cultural Appropriation or Adoption of Orphan Cultural Identity? (2018)
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In January 2017, members of the indigenous Salasaca community of the central sierra region of Ecuador discovered a cache of pre-Colombian pottery during ditch construction work which passed through a site of ritual significance. The government organisation responsible for managing antiquities removed the artefacts, promising that archaeological investigations would be carried out in due course. They never were. The cache of artefacts was a strange mixture of authentic ceramic figurines and...