10 Three Generations of Cooperation: Voices from Tula, Hidalgo

Abstract

Tula is well known in the archaeological community and in popular consciousness as the capital of the Toltecs. Less well known are the three generations of local residents who have devoted their labor to archaeological projects in the Tula region over the past 70+ years. Since Acosta's foundational work in the 1940s to the present day, archaeologists working at Tula have enjoyed the local population's solid support. This chapter uses interviews with the inhabitants of Tula de Allende to illustrate the seldom-acknowledged backbone of local support that makes all archaeology at Tula possible and suggests directions for future ethnographic research. [Tula, archaeology, local, heritage, participation]

El guardián Modesto González y la historiografía de la arqueología mexicana

“…Para el caso de El Tajín, Salas Landa (2018) describe cómo la práctica de la reconstrucción monumental suele ocultar los sustentos precarios de los trabajadores locales. En contraste, el estudio de Anderson (2015) resalta la cooperación entre arqueólogos y trabajadores que se ha desarrollado durante casi 70 años de investigación en Tula, Hidalgo.…”