Doctoral Dissertation Research: Preservation through Privatization: Maya Heritage Workers and Transnational Institutions in Yucatan, Mexico

本论文的研究是一个比较研究的玛雅社区与考古区，春丘密尔和奇琴伊察，谈判和经验，他们的角色，意义，并要求考古遗产的文化遗产政策的实施范围内的国家机构，外国考古项目，和国际政府组织。 通过玛雅人的空间，财产和所有权的概念，考古区的司法建立和监管，以及最近的努力，以建立当地的文化基础与国际联系的人种学的描述，研究认为，目前考古学家和当地社区的努力，以发展和保护文化遗产的一部分，促进“替代私有化”的考古区。这项研究涉及玛雅研究和文化遗产研究领域，提供了基准标准，以比较研究玛雅社区如何与区域，国家和国际规模的机构，科学和商业机构的现代化影响相结合。 除了培养一名文化人类学博士生外，这项研究的结果将有助于了解那些加强或阻碍文化遗产国有化和/或私有化努力的因素。

This dissertation research is a comparative study of how those Maya communities associated with the archaeological zones, Chunchucmil and Chichen Itza, negotiate and experience their roles, meanings, and claims over archaeological patrimony in the context of the implementation of cultural heritage policy by national institutions, foreign archaeological projects, and international government organizations. Through ethnographic description of Maya conceptions of space, property, and ownership, the juridical establishment and regulation of archaeological zones, and the recent efforts to establish local cultural foundations with international ties, the research considers how current endeavors on the part of archaeologists and local communities to develop and preserve cultural heritage promote "alternative privatizations" of archaeological zones. This study engages the fields of Maya studies and cultural heritage studies, providing baseline criteria by which to comparatively study how Maya communities integrate with the modernizing influences of institutional, scientific, and commercial agencies of regional, national, and international scale. In addition to training a doctoral student in cultural anthropology, the findings of this research will contribute to understanding those factors that enhance or impede efforts to nationalize and/or privatize cultural heritage.