Kasey Diserens Morgan is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work on the uses of heritage in Mexico has been supported by sources including the Louis J. Kolb Society and the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.Tiffany C. Fryer is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and assistant curator of Historical & Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. Her work on colonialism in the Americas has been supported by various sources including the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

“This is a compelling and crucial collection of studies that should be read by all scholars of both the Maya and (post)colonialism in the Americas. However we conceive of the task—as decolonizing the ethnohistory of the Maya or as exploring coloniality as a way to better understand the Maya past and present—it is clear that a new conversation needs to take place, that these eighteen contributors have started it, and that we must join it as soon as possible.”—Matthew Restall, author of When Montezuma Met Cortés and Return to Ixil  “This publicly engaged archaeology of recent Yucatán pasts as the subject of an entire collection is long overdue.”—Minette E. Church, University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Kasey Diserens Morgan is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work on the uses of heritage in Mexico has been supported by sources including the Louis J. Kolb Society and the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.Tiffany C. Fryer is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and assistant curator of Historical & Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. Her work on colonialism in the Americas has been supported by various sources including the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

“This is a compelling and crucial collection of studies that should be read by all scholars of both the Maya and (post)colonialism in the Americas. However we conceive of the task—as decolonizing the ethnohistory of the Maya or as exploring coloniality as a way to better understand the Maya past and present—it is clear that a new conversation needs to take place, that these eighteen contributors have started it, and that we must join it as soon as possible.”—Matthew Restall, author of When Montezuma Met Cortés and Return to Ixil  “This publicly engaged archaeology of recent Yucatán pasts as the subject of an entire collection is long overdue.”—Minette E. Church, University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Kasey Diserens Morgan is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work on the uses of heritage in Mexico has been supported by sources including the Louis J. Kolb Society and the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.Tiffany C. Fryer is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and assistant curator of Historical & Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. Her work on colonialism in the Americas has been supported by various sources including the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

“This is a compelling and crucial collection of studies that should be read by all scholars of both the Maya and (post)colonialism in the Americas. However we conceive of the task—as decolonizing the ethnohistory of the Maya or as exploring coloniality as a way to better understand the Maya past and present—it is clear that a new conversation needs to take place, that these eighteen contributors have started it, and that we must join it as soon as possible.”—Matthew Restall, author of When Montezuma Met Cortés and Return to Ixil  “This publicly engaged archaeology of recent Yucatán pasts as the subject of an entire collection is long overdue.”—Minette E. Church, University of Colorado Colorado Springs