Querencia: Community Reciprocity in Management of the Cultural Landscape by East Sandia and Manzano Land Grant Communities

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Querencia, the vernacular term for love of homeland, can be conceptually deployed as a historical organizing framework for traditional Indo-Hispano land-based communities in northern New Mexico. Querencia can be described through the historical function, form, and relationship of these systems, sustained by community resiliency, and founded on the ecological elements that underlie the cultural landscape. This study examines how the community reciprocity model embedded in the concept of querencia is used in the management of cultural resources within the East Mountains region of central New Mexico. The land grant communities of Chilili, Cañón de Carnué, and San Antonio de las Huertas will used as sites for unpacking the concept of querencia in maintaining community knowledge for the communal management of land.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37020.0