Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Living Ruins and Vertiginous Vestiges: Amerindian Engagements with Remnants of the Past | Philippe Erikson and Valentina Vapnarsky
1. Patrimonialization, Defilement, and the Zombification of Yanesha Cultural Heritage (Peruvian Amazonia) | Fernando Santos-Granero
2. Maya Living Ruins: The Hidden Places of Interlocking Temporalities | Valentina Vapnarsky
3. Deserted Ruins? Maya Tseltal and Ch’ol Engagement with Salient Spaces | Cédric Becquey and Marie Chosson
4. Where Past and Future Meet... Abandoned Village Sites as Cruxes of Political, Historical, and Eschatological Narratives among the Chácobo of Bolivian Amazonia | Philippe Erikson
5. Grounds for Political Claims: Earthworks and Anthropogenic Soils as Cultural Heritage and Sources of Territorial Legitimation in Brazilian Amazonia | Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen and Emilie Stoll
6. Inca Vestiges: From Prehumans to New Agers | Antoinette Molinié
7. The Topography of Time: Pre-Hispanic Ruins, Topographical Vestiges, and the Controversial Andean New Year (North Potosí, Bolivian Andes) | Laurence Charlier Zeineddine
8. Disparate Ancestors: Convergent Pasts and the Dynamics of Heritage in the Southern Andean Altiplano (Uyuni, Bolivia) | Pablo Cruz
Index
List of Contributors