La museología equilibra un pasado colonialista y logocéntrico con un presente en el que los grandes debates descoloniales están a la orden del día. Los trabajos e investigaciones colaborativas se han vuelto casi mandatorios ...

The reconstitution of Bolivia as a Plurinational State in 2009 had significant consequences for the Bolivian nation’s imagination as pluri-nation. It also had repercussions on the national museums, which are potent spaces ...

When museums and art join to the memory linked to a violent conflict, they are constituted in controversial spaces, exposed to the prevalence of various memories and discourses that seek to legitimize or delegitimize ...

This paper attempts to contribute to the research of interdynastic marriage and alliance strategies in the (Late) Classic Maya Lowlands and their purpose in a landscape of growing regional conflict. For this purpose, the ...

Digitization presents ethnological museums with the challenge of consolidating the paradigms of standard and diversity. This problem manifests in the object of the Ekeko, which requires to be assigned standardised object ...

This paper analyses the impact of the community development and heritage preservation project (SISAN) in the construction of feelings of belonging about the site, promoted by the Site Museum of Pachacamac and the NGO ...

We develop a brief history of the archaeological museums of La Paz (Bolivia), tracking the formation of collections exhibited in the city museums, and linking them with the intellectual and political history of Bolivia. ...

Nowadays, anthropology museums debate between keeping or restituting objects. Through the study of the Cora ethnographic collection obtained by Konrad Theodor Preuss in Mexico (1906), today preserved in the Ethnologisches ...

The Baakal emblem glyph was one of the few emblems that were shared by different cities during the Classic Period. Originally appearing at Palenque, this emblem glyph would later be used by rulers at Tortuguero and Comalcalco. ...