Book Chapters

1. I.M. Silverblatt. ""Power and Memory in Latin America: The Uses of the Pre-Columbian Past"." Archaeology and Society in the 21st Century: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Case Studies. Edited by Neil Asher Silberman and Ernest S. Frerichs.  ( 2001.): 21-32.

   Abstract:
   This essay, published in the proceedings of an international conference on archaeology and memory in light of the publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls, explores how conceptions of the pre-Columbian past have been used to support political agendas. It includes a critique of von Daniken’s theory of the extraterrestrial origins of pre- Columbian sites, Mexican revolutionary ideology, and Indianist movements in Peru.

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