Anthropology of Archaeology

Anthropology of Archaeology: A Perspective from Ethnometodology and Cultural Anthropology, is a book by Abdel Hernández San Juan based in a series of lectures discussed by the author as guest lecturer in a Panel at the Congress of Ethnometodology, University of Houston, Anthropology Department 1997 about the Ethnographic Film 'Incidents of Travel' of USA Anthropologists Quetzil Eugenio Castañeda and Jeff Impele focused in the Equinox museum of anthropology, Maya arteanies market and global tourism event in the Maya Pyramid of Chichen Itza in Yucatan, Mexico, and as guest professor lecturer of the Lake Forest College Department of Sociology and Anthropology in Illinois, to participates in a Panel Forum on Museums Representations of Cultures, Anthropology, Museography, Ethnography and Exhibiting Installations of Maya Artesanies and Quetzil Eugenio Castañeda Anthropology of Tourism in Mexico as well as based in a sustained collaboration between the book author and Quetzil. The book discusses from a perspective of Ethnometodology and cultural anthropology the work of Quetzil Eugenio Castañeda as a USA anthropologist of Guatemalan descends doing his projects of research and fieldwork in Yucatan, Mexico, focusing the issue of the relation between the representation of culture and the mise in scene of fieldwork in textual and visual displays in the field of anthropology discussing and demonstrating with empirical research cases, the mutual and complimentary benefits of such an conjunction, on how exploring the mise in scene of fieldwork in visual displays helps to a best representation of culture Mostly a book discussing Quetzil Anthropology the book approach his film on the Equinox, an Exhibit of Maya Art presented by Quetzil at the University of Houston and an exhibition of Maya artesanies and anthropology displays at Duran Gallery, the Art institute of The Lake Forest College, Illinois 1999.The author sustain that Quetzil anthropology must be understood mainly an anthropology of archaeology as perceived from the museum of Maya culture and focus on several major issues on research methodology.