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Archaeology, land tenure, and Indigenous dispossession in Mexico

Holley-Kline, Sam·2022·Journal of Social Archaeology
DOI 10.1177/14696053221112608
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In this paper, I examine a case of dispossession that made land belonging to Indigenous Totonac residents of San Antonio Ojital part of the archaeological site of El Tajín. To do so, I examine the failure of a 2016 claim made to Mexico’s Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos. Rather than this being a case of purpose-driven dispossession or an unintended consequence of well-meaning policies, I trace the ultimate causes to multicultural recognition, 19th-century land reforms, and the expansion of archaeological research in El Tajín. Liberal land reforms brought a private property regime into being through enrollment and inscription, and Totonac landowners around El Tajín used the regime to their benefit. As El Tajín expanded though excavation, archaeologists and landowners used the private property regime’s conception of space to address conflicts in El Tajín. The resulting pragmatic accommodations would ultimately fail landowners when an archaeological megaproject came in. Ultimately, I argue for an historical and contextual understanding of archaeology and land tenure to understand the discipline’s diverse relationships with dispossession.

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Authors
Holley-Kline, S.
Affiliations
Department of History, Florida State University, USA
ORCID
Holley-Kline, Sam
Venue
Journal of Social Archaeology
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2022-07-07
Volume
22
Issue
3
Pages
255-276
ISSN
  • 1469-6053 (ISSN-L)
  • 1741-2951
DOI
10.1177/14696053221112608
OpenAlex
W4284881298
Cited by
7
References
53
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3
FWCI
6.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Journal of Social Archaeology (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
  • Wenner-Gren Foundation (Dissertation Fieldwork Grant)
  • Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (P022A1600-33)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
Keywords
Indigenous dispossession, land tenure, El Tajín, Totonac, land reform

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