(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-08-16) Espinoza Pajuelo, Pedro; Manrique, Patricia; Luján, Karen; Morales, Santiago; Zela, Verónica
The cultural continuum methodology was created in 2011 during archaeological and cultural management intervention in the Mateo Salado archaeological complex (Cercado de Lima). This methodology proposes that all activities evinced into a monument along the time have same value as life styles, connecting in this way pre-Columbian archaeology, historic archaeology, archaeology of the contemporaneity, and public archaeology. It challenges temporal criteria must be determinant because it privileges an epoch at the expense of other ones and trends to select events for a grandiloquent diffusion. Likewise, the cultural continuum allows addressing contemporary and controversial issues in a monument usually seen as only pre-Hispanic. For showing these features, this paper presents cultural continuum applications in investigation, conservation and restoration, and cultural management towards community in Mateo Salado.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-08-04) Alexandrino Ocaña, Grace
For over ten years, Peru has seen the rise of groups of citizens who want to take over the responsibility for the safeguard[1]ing of the nation’s pre-colonial cultural heritage. Citizen participation in the safeguard of heritage has not been much implemented despite its inclusion in the legal regulations laid down by the Peruvian government. Even more, Peru’s authorities and cultural experts still favour a material-centred preservation outlook over the social use and the interac[1]tion between contemporary societies and the built heritage. Based on an extensive ethnographic and archival work, I here characterize what citizen participation in the management of pre-Colonial structures has been like since the estab[1]lishment of the Ministry of Culture; describe the way in which citizen participation has developed ever since cultural heritage grassroots organizations appeared; and discuss the potential that citizen participation holds for the attainment of a more sustainable management of heritage.
