Daily Life Past and Present: The Role of Relationships and Strategies in Structural Change

Summary

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 sites takes a household-centered approach wherein the household is more than just a building block or productive unit, but a socially constituted assemblage. Through this work, I investigate the roles of household members, their relationships, and the strategies of daily life on transformative social, political, and economic changes that took place between 500 BC and AD 100. This research is conducted with the contemporary community of San Martín Tilcajete. Our focus on the role of relationships and strategies of daily life in the context of structural change has influenced the nature of our collaboration. We jointly sought funding for a project involving both of our communities. We conducted the first portion of our project in San Martín Tilcajete, an artifact illustration program involving women artisans from the community, and the second, an interactive exhibition, in Ann Arbor. We worked together to challenge the structures that often prevent this kind of exchange and the reciprocal crossing of borders.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• A Construir Puentes / Building Bridges: Diálogos en Oaxaca Archaeology a través de las Fronteras

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Abstract Id(s): 32957