A Construir Puentes / Building Bridges: Diálogos en Oaxaca Archaeology a través de las Fronteras

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "A Construir Puentes / Building Bridges: Diálogos en Oaxaca Archaeology a través de las Fronteras" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Over three decades ago, the volume *Debating Oaxaca Archaeology (1990) was published. It was supposed to be an authoritative summation of current research and ongoing arguments in Oaxaca archaeology. However, several key voices were missing from both the volume and the debates, most notably from women, Mexican, and Indigenous scholars. Since that time, archaeologists and anthropologists working in Oaxaca have made incredible advancements in several different ways. New data and analyses from recent studies have greatly contributed to our overall knowledge about Oaxaca’s past. There have also been several critical shifts in the theoretical framing of research to more practice-, agency-, and poststructuralist-oriented perspectives as well as increasing collaboration with descendant communities. Given these critical advancements, the goal of this symposium is to reexamine the arguments presented in *Debating Oaxaca Archaeology and discuss how we have advanced, where we have made missteps, and where we still need to make changes. Most importantly, this symposium brings together American and Mexican-based researchers who work in Oaxaca so that we can continue to build bridges of dialogue between us. By connecting and bringing researchers together, we can solve present questions about Oaxaca’s history and heritage while moving past old debates.

Other Keywords
History Of Archaeology • Formative • Ethnohistory/History • Historical Archaeology • Ceramic Analysis • Household Archaeology • Historic • Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology • Gender and Childhood • Identity/Ethnicity

Geographic Keywords
United Mexican States (Country) • Oaxaca (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • Mesoamerica: Oaxaca or Southern Highlands

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  • Ancient Oaxaca beyond Zapotecs and Mixtecs (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Stacie King.

    This is an abstract from the "A Construir Puentes / Building Bridges: Diálogos en Oaxaca Archaeology a través de las Fronteras" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I contend that the major gulf in Oaxaca archaeology is between Zapotec and Mixtec archaeology on the one hand and the archaeology of other regions and other language speakers on the other. The early focus on Zapotec and Mixtec archaeology stems from having codices written in these languages...

  • Archaeology in the Southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca: After a Century of Explorations, What Has Changed? (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Pedro Ramon Celis.

    This is an abstract from the "A Construir Puentes / Building Bridges: Diálogos en Oaxaca Archaeology a través de las Fronteras" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will be focused on understanding how archaeology has been practiced in different ways by different people in more than 100 years of explorations in the southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. Also, who has produced information about the past in this region, and for whom,...

  • Changing Paradigms in Oaxaca Archaeology: Examining the Past to Understand Our Future (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Marijke Stoll. Hilary Leathem.

    This is an abstract from the "A Construir Puentes / Building Bridges: Diálogos en Oaxaca Archaeology a través de las Fronteras" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past century, archaeology in Oaxaca had gained a reputation among American researchers as a space rife with contentious debates. On the other side of the border, Mexican researchers remained disconnected from these scholarly debates, in part because little effort was made to build a...

  • Daily Life Past and Present: The Role of Relationships and Strategies in Structural Change (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lacey Carpenter.

    This is an abstract from the "A Construir Puentes / Building Bridges: Diálogos en Oaxaca Archaeology a través de las Fronteras" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The long history of research in Oaxaca, Mexico, has influenced archaeological method and theory far beyond the region. Specifically, the archaeology of Oaxaca has contributed significantly to the study of households, daily life, and transformative social change. My work at the Tilcajete...

  • Debating Oaxaca Historical Archaeology (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Danny Zborover.

    This is an abstract from the "A Construir Puentes / Building Bridges: Diálogos en Oaxaca Archaeology a través de las Fronteras" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. “Prehistory is passé” write Schmidt and Mrozowski in their 2013 essay "The Death of Prehistory," and this should definitely be the case for Oaxacan archaeology. But although most scholars would agree that Oaxaca may have seen the first literary civilization in the Americas, not all would...

  • Revisiting the Early Oaxacan Village: New Perspectives on Some of Mesoamerica’s First Settled Communities (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Guy Hepp.

    This is an abstract from the "A Construir Puentes / Building Bridges: Diálogos en Oaxaca Archaeology a través de las Fronteras" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since its publication in 1976, *The Early Mesoamerican Village has been a landmark for the systematic study of early settled communities. Based on research in the Valley of Oaxaca, *EMV has helped many students of archaeology to better understand household and community organization and...