Art-writing in the modern Maya art world of Chichén Itzá: Transcultural ethnography and experimental fieldwork

American Ethnologist

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-42

  Castañeda, Ouetzil E ^a  

^a Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology of art; Art exhibition; Emergent audience; Ethnographic installation; Fieldwork; Therapy; Transculturation

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442567969     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2004.31.1.21     Document Type: Review

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