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A major, ethnographically focused, empirically based, and theoretically cutting edge contribution to the field of critical heritage studies that warrants global readership. --Christian Isendahl, University of Gothenburg An illuminating and much-needed contribution to the discussion of the decolonization of cultural studies, Living Ruins shows, in all its intricacies, the basic ambivalence of Native attitudes toward vestiges of the past, oscillating between fascination and fear, patrimonial pride and metaphysical discomfort. --Philippe Descola, College de France, author of Beyond Nature and Culture This pathbreaking collection shows how vestiges of the past become sites of ontological encounter where contrasting understandings of time, materiality and life are played out. Living Ruins interrogates these issues with ethnographic depth, theoretical sophistication and respect. --Catherine Allen, The George Washington University

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Philippe Erikson is professor and former chair of the anthropology department at the University of Paris Nanterre, and currently editor-in-chief of the Journal de la Société des Américanistes. He has carried out long-term fieldwork in Brazil and in Bolivia among the Matis (since 1984) and the Chacobo (since 1991), and published widely on Amazonian anthropology.   Valentina Vapnarsky is research director at the CNRS and holds a chair of linguistic anthropology at the EPHE, Paris. She is currently president of the Société des Américanistes and director of the EREA research center at University of Paris Nanterre. Trained in both linguistics and anthropology, she has done fieldwork in Guatemala (Itza Maya) and Mexico (Yucatec Maya).  

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