The Usefulness of Institutional Analysis (IAD) for Defining Focal Action Situations in Mexican Cultural Heritage: PROCEDE-INAH and CONACULTA Outcomes after 1992 Reforms

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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper analyzes how polycentricity governance is articulated around cultural heritage (CH) performance in an overview of changing contextual factors and focal action situation in Mexican Cultural System (MCS). This paper adds to conversation historical analysis from law changes across time in both countries, and also uses the Network of Adjacent Action Situation Analysis (NAAS) and Combined IAD-SES (CIS) framework to structure and compare institutional analysis. Polycentric governance of cultural heritage is a scarce observed phenomenon in the development of cultural resource management policies. Three case studies are presented briefly here under the understanding of Institutional Analysis (IAD): PROCEDE-INAH, CONALCULTA and San Pablo Villa de Mitla. The polycentric approach is clearly defined in Elinor Ostrom's work and can be used as an opportunity to bridge Economics and Archaeology discussions about local management of cultural heritage. This opens an important discussion where CH, which should be considered as common resource, is used and owned by a given social group that identifies this cultural resource as its own heritage.

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• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36446.0