Here is a list of references for further reading into research areas related to our project.

MACHI PUBLICATIONS

Ishihara, Reiko, Patricia McAnany, and Morvin Coc
2008 "The (MACHI) Project in Belize: Bridging the Past and the Present through a Public Education Program in the Toledo District, Belize." In Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, Volume 5: Papers of the 2007 Belize Archaeology Symposium, edited by John Morris, Sherilyne Jones, Jaime Awe, and Christopher Helmke, pp. 307-313. Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History, Belize. Print Belize, Ltd.

Parks, Shoshaunna, Patricia A. McAnany, and Satoru Murata
2006 “The Conservation of Maya Cultural Heritage: Searching for Solutions in a Troubled Region” Journal of Field Archaeology, Volume 31 (4).

SUGGESTED READINGS

Breglia, Lisa
2006 Monumental Ambivalence: The Politics of Heritage. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.

Castaneda, Quetzil E.
1996 In the museum of Maya culture: Touring Chichen Itza. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Coggins, Clemency
1969 “Illicit Traffic in Pre-Columbian Antiquities.” Art Journal 29(1): 94-98.

Coggins, Clemency Chase
1995 “A Licit International Traffic in Ancient Art: Let There be Light.” International Journal of Cultural Property 1(4): 61-80.

Cojti Cuxil, Demetrio (Waqi’ Q’anil)
1996 “The Politics of Maya Revindication.” In Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala, edited by E.F. Fischer and R.M. Brown, pp. 19-50. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX.

1995 Configuración del Pensamiento Político del Pueblo Maya (2da. Parte). Editorial CHOLSAMAJ, Guatemala.

Fischer, Edward F. and R. McKenna Brown
1996 “Introduction: Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala.” In Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala, edited by E.F. Fischer and R.M. Brown, pp. 1-18. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX.

Gilgan, Elizabeth
2001 “Looting and the Market for Maya Objects: A Belizean Perspective.” In Trade in Illicit Antiquities: The Destruction of the World’s Archaeological Heritage, edited by N. Brodie, J. Doole, C. Renfrew, pp. 73-88. McDonald Institute Monographs for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, England.

Harrison, Faye V.
1991 “Anthropology as an agent of transformation: Introductory comments and queries.” In Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving further toward an anthropology for liberation, edited by F.V. Harrison, pp. 1-15. American Anthropological Association, Arlington, VA.

Hollowell, Julie
2006 “Moral arguments on subsistence digging.” In The Ethics of Archaeology: Philosophical Perspectives on Archaeological Practice. Edited by Chris Scarre and Geoffrey Scarre. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. Pp. 69-93.

Hufford, Mary, Editor
1994 Conserving culture: A new discourse on heritage. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Joyce, Rosemary A.
2004 “Archaeology and Nation Building: A View from Central America.” In The Politics of Archaeology and Identity in a Global Context, Pp.79-100. Canada: Archaeological Institute of America.

Luke, C. and J.S. Henderson
2006 “The Plunder of the Ulua Valley, Honduras and a Market Analysis for its Antiquities.” In Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and the Antiquities Trade, edited by N. Brodie, M. Kersel, C.Luke, K. Walker Tubb, 147-172. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

Lynott, Mark J. and Alison Wylie, Editors
2000 Ethics in American Archaeology, 2nd Revised Edition. Washington D.C.: Society for American Archaeology.

Matsuda, David
1998a “The Ethics of Archaeology, Subsistence Digging, and Artifact Looting in Latin America.” International Journal of Cultural Property 7(1): 89-98.

1998b Subsistence Digging in and Around Belize. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Union Institute, Cincinnati. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.

Mortensen, Lena Michaela
2005 Constructing Heritage at Copan, Honduras: An Ethnography of the Archaeology Industry. Ph.D. Dissertation. Indiana University.

Paredes, Sofia Maury
1998 “Surviving in the Rainforest: The Realities of Looting in the Rural Villages of El Peten, Guatemala.” Report to the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. Available from http://www.famsi.org/reports/paredesmaury/paredesmaury.html.

Pendergast, David M
1991 “And the Loot Goes on: Winning Some Battles, but not the War.” Journal of Field Archaeology 18(1): 89-95.

Schackel, Paul A. and Erve J. Chambers, Editors
2004 Places in Mind: Public Archaeology as Applied Anthropology. New York: Routledge.

Trigger, Bruce G.
1984 “Alternative Archaeologies: Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist,” in Man 19(3): 355-370.

Watkins, Joe
2000 Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Practice. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek.

Vitelli, Karen D., Editor
1996 Archaeological Ethics. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press.

Zimmerman, Larry J
1994 “Sharing Control of the Past,” in Archaeology 47(6): 65, 67-68