{"title":"4 Cholula: The Mall of [Meso]america","authors":"Geoffrey G. McCafferty","doi":"10.1111/apaa.12143","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apaa.12143","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Ethnohistoric sources describe the market of Postclassic Cholula as featuring goods from throughout Mesoamerica. Furthermore, the merchant guilds centered in the city, followers of the god Yacatecuhtli/Quetzalcoatl, were elevated to princely status. Contact-period sources also describe the political organization of the city, in which these merchant princes played a prominent role. The far-flung influence of the religio-commercial diaspora is represented through the distinctive symbolism of the Mixteca-Puebla stylistic tradition, found throughout Postclassic Mesoamerica and as far south as Pacific Nicaragua. This paper uses the ethnohistorical evidence to construct a model of Cholula's urban economy and its international influence, with archaeological evidence to critically evaluate the sources.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":100116,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association","volume":"32 1","pages":"54-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/apaa.12143","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78051417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"10 Wealth Inequality and Market Exchange: A Household-Based Approach to the Economy of Late Classic Uxul, Campeche","authors":"Els Barnard","doi":"10.1111/apaa.12149","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apaa.12149","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, I discuss the economic system of the Classic Maya Lowlands secondary urban center of Uxul, Campeche. In particular, I aim to understand Uxul's economy by taking a household-based approach, focusing on the distribution of artifacts and wealth in domestic contexts. I integrate a distributional approach with an analysis of wealth inequality using the Gini index, and insights from the field of modern economics into the mechanisms responsible for the observed economic patterns. This allows for the identification and characterization of market exchange in a case study where physical marketplaces have not yet been identified.</p>","PeriodicalId":100116,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association","volume":"32 1","pages":"143-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/apaa.12149","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81765453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"8Discourses of the Haunted: An Intersubjective Approach to Archaeology at the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School","authors":"Sarah L. Surface-Evans, Sarah J. Jones","doi":"10.1111/apaa.12131","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apaa.12131","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This chapter explores “haunting” as a way to conceptualize and engage with the traumatic events of the United States Federal Indian Boarding School era. The goal is to create an intersectional and intersubjective approach that does not seek singular explanations, but leaves room for diversity of memory—a core principle in feminist indigenous theory. Bringing together archaeological, archival, and oral data, we tell three stories of perseverance that have come to light from community-based heritage work. In this manner, archaeology has the power to facilitate community healing and decolonize women's experiences at the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":100116,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association","volume":"31 1","pages":"110-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/apaa.12131","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"95856900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"6Chai and Conversation: Crafting Field Identities and Archaeological Practice in South Asia","authors":"Teresa P. Raczek, Namita S. Sugandhi","doi":"10.1111/apaa.12125","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apaa.12125","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we present examples from four research projects in India that were influenced by the values and ethics of decolonized and participatory research, and shaped by engendered perspectives. Each project built on earlier experiences that forced us to critically examine the ways we engaged with participants, crafted our field identities, and formed relationships. Using insights from linguistic anthropology and attending to intersectional inequalities and the construction of epistemic authority, we showcase how conducting an ethnography of communication and employing tactics of intersubjectivity influenced archaeological outcomes. We argue that close attention to context of communication, identity expression, and intersectional inequality enhances intersubjectivity, a necessary ingredient for successful participatory archaeology projects.</p>","PeriodicalId":100116,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association","volume":"31 1","pages":"80-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/apaa.12125","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81956347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"7Learning to Listen: Stakeholder Perspectives on Gender at a Thule-Era Alaskan Village","authors":"Anna C. Sloan","doi":"10.1111/apaa.12130","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apaa.12130","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper explores how feminist and indigenous archaeologies can ally to produce decolonizing heritage practice through intersubjective methods. Intersectional feminisms, particularly Native feminisms, suggest that focusing on local gender contexts in indigenous community research can subvert settler colonial systems, under which sexism and racism conspire to oppress Native people. I apply these insights about the decolonizing potential of localized gender research to a community-centered project at Nunalleq, a Thule-era site near the Yup'ik village of Quinhagak, Alaska. Here, stakeholder perspectives on gender suggest that framing site interpretations through concepts of family and teaching/learning would align with community values in potentially powerful ways.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":100116,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association","volume":"31 1","pages":"96-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/apaa.12130","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"110975611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"4Gender, Masculinity, and Professional–Avocational Heritage Collaborations","authors":"Siobhan M. Hart","doi":"10.1111/apaa.12128","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apaa.12128","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Professionals and avocationals often work side by side on archaeological sites, collaborate on research, and engage in mutual knowledge sharing. However, little attention has been paid to the way gender and social identities inflect these relationships. In this article I consider the gendered dimensions of avocational–professional relationships, drawing from experiences with a multi-stakeholder collaborative project in New England. I examine how gender and masculinity are intertwined with social class and whiteness to reinforce and reproduce hierarchies and privilege in archaeological practice. I conclude that to realize democratizing goals, archaeologists must critically examine the assumptions, norms, and expectations of avocationals and recognize how gender, class, ethnicity, and race intersect and interact in collaborative contexts.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":100116,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association","volume":"31 1","pages":"54-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/apaa.12128","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92978728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"9Memory and Masculinity at Stanford's Arboretum Chinese Quarters","authors":"Christopher B. Lowman","doi":"10.1111/apaa.12132","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apaa.12132","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using archival, archaeological, and oral historical evidence, I explore how Chinese men living at Stanford University's Arboretum Chinese Quarters navigated changing attitudes toward gender and race at the end of the nineteenth century. Artifacts helped prompt an intersubjective process of oral history and stories shared by descendants of Chinese employees at Stanford and other members of the local Chinese American community in California's San Francisco Bay Area. Based on these interviews and further research into documents and objects, I highlight two intertwined social spheres for the Chinese population at Stanford, including networks based on business, family, or fraternal organizations, and competitive games and athletics. I show how these men may have forged new ways to perform an emergent Chinese American masculinity by combining practices from both sides of the Pacific. Research conducted between 2016 and 2019 helped produce new senses of heritage for the Chinese American communities at Stanford and elsewhere in the Bay Area.</p>","PeriodicalId":100116,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association","volume":"31 1","pages":"122-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/apaa.12132","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"99468652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2Reflecting on Positionality: Archaeological Heritage Praxis in Quintana Roo, Mexico","authors":"Tiffany C. Fryer","doi":"10.1111/apaa.12126","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apaa.12126","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article I argue for a renewed engagement with the concept of <i>positionality</i> in archaeology. I provide a brief history of thinking about the idea of subject position in archaeology, focusing specifically on researcher subjectivity rather than that of past persons. The discussion highlights some of the strands of archaeological thinking where positionality has figured prominently in investigative and interpretative strategies: namely, intersectional, relational, and community-based archaeologies. I then offer three examples from research in Quintana Roo, Mexico that speak to the ways that grappling with positionality has influenced my and my collaborators’ agendas and goals related to the commemoration of the heritage of the Maya Social War (Caste War of Yucatan).</p>","PeriodicalId":100116,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association","volume":"31 1","pages":"26-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/apaa.12126","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91278822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"5Sex Workers as Stakeholders: Incorporating Harm Reduction into Archaeological Praxis","authors":"Jennifer A. Lupu","doi":"10.1111/apaa.12129","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apaa.12129","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Stereotypes and stigma around sex work are powerful political and social forces that are used to justify state violence, dehumanization, and marginalization. Drawing on community archaeology scholarship, I discuss how my engagement with sex workers redirected the questions I asked of the past, pushing me toward a more rigorous and ethical praxis. Harm-reduction philosophies, which emphasize agency and non-judgmentalism, can valuably contribute to an intersubjective feminist praxis in archaeological research. Drawing on discussions of intersectionality and spatial policing, I review existing scholarship on sex work and discuss the dialectical relationship between the present and the past.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":100116,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association","volume":"31 1","pages":"66-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/apaa.12129","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"99899063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1Introduction: Toward an Engaged Feminist Heritage Praxis","authors":"Tiffany C. Fryer, Teresa P. Raczek","doi":"10.1111/apaa.12124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apaa.12124","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We advocate a feminist approach to archaeological heritage work in order to transform heritage practice and the production of archaeological knowledge. We use an engaged feminist standpoint and situate intersubjectivity and intersectionality as critical components of this practice. An engaged feminist approach to heritage work allows the discipline to consider women's, men's, and gender non-conforming persons’ positions in the field, to reveal their contributions, to develop critical pedagogical approaches, and to rethink forms of representation. Throughout, we emphasize the intellectual labor of women of color, queer and gender non-conforming persons, and early white feminists in archaeology.</p>","PeriodicalId":100116,"journal":{"name":"Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association","volume":"31 1","pages":"7-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/apaa.12124","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137558413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}