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13 Archaeological Positivism and Cultural Plurality: Working with Conflicting Views of Mesoamerican Legacies
Author(s) -
Anderson David S.
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.12054
Subject(s) - mesoamerica , narrative , presentation (obstetrics) , simple (philosophy) , positivism , promotion (chess) , history , political science , sociology , environmental ethics , aesthetics , epistemology , archaeology , law , literature , politics , art , philosophy , medicine , radiology
The complicated cultural history of the modern nation of Mexico has created a lengthy list of people who have vested interests in the protection, promotion, and presentation of the pre‐Hispanic past. In this paper, I wrestle with my own attempts to understand the complexities of these competing narratives by examining who the stakeholders are in this situation and why they consider themselves to be stakeholders. Ultimately I attempt to address how we can approach conflicts between stakeholders when their interpretations of the pre‐Hispanic past do not agree. These problems unfortunately are not simple and do not have simple solutions, but they do form an important part of understanding the contemporary legacies of ancient Mesoamerica.