Jerry D. Moore, Cultural Landscapes in the Ancient Andes: Archaeologies of Place (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005), pp. xii+270, $65.00, hb.
Mayas have little or no concept of an archaeological heritage. To them, heritage means the henequen haciendas from which the Mexican Revolution freed them, and the ejido system under which they now work the land. Vague hopes of developing a tourist industry around the new site mean little to them, and rightly so, as even such superb Mexican ruins as Ek Balam and Cacaxtlan receive only a sprinkling of visitors. Unfortunately two concluding chapters lapse again into the turgid deconstructobabble of ‘ territorializing machinations of heritage ’ and ‘overlapping territories of multiple discursive regimes. ’ Mercifully, they are brief.