Background and Motivations: The Anthropology of K'uuyemugeh

Summary

This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The K’uuyemugeh Project is designed to develop new methodologies, providing opportunities for Pojoaque community members to oversee, participate and interpret ancestral sites and their continuing relevance in telling ancestral and more recent histories. As a cultural anthropologist the work is also designed to bring the complexities of living cultures and communities to the work of archaeologists.

As anthropologists are we willing to have new insights that might change the way we see and understand New Mexico? The investigations privilege Pojoaque and Tewa narratives about the northern Rio Grande region, outlining methodologies to incorporate insights that have the ability to change the way non-natives have interrupted the region. The project’s goal is to return a Tewa presence to the site and region, telling a fuller story of Pojoaque settlement, culture, and history. The Pueblo’s partnership ensures that Pueblo history and voice frames all investigations, developing collaborative-partnership methodologies and instituting and safeguarding Tewa agency throughout the investigation.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico

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Abstract Id(s): 24255