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10 Three Generations of Cooperation: Voices from Tula, Hidalgo
Author(s) -
Anderson J. Heath
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
archeological papers of the american anthropological association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.783
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1551-8248
pISSN - 1551-823X
DOI - 10.1111/apaa.12051
Subject(s) - capital (architecture) , ethnography , archaeology , population , consciousness , allende meteorite , work (physics) , geography , ethnology , history , sociology , demography , engineering , psychology , mechanical engineering , physics , meteorite , astronomy , neuroscience , chondrite
Tula is well known in the archaeological community and in popular consciousness as the capital of the Toltecs. Less well known are the three generations of local residents who have devoted their labor to archaeological projects in the Tula region over the past 70+ years. Since Acosta's foundational work in the 1940s to the present day, archaeologists working at Tula have enjoyed the local population's solid support. This chapter uses interviews with the inhabitants of Tula de Allende to illustrate the seldom‐acknowledged backbone of local support that makes all archaeology at Tula possible and suggests directions for future ethnographic research.