Artifact and Artifice podcast by Lilly Callender and Ellysa Smith. (20-minute episode)
Join Lilly and Ellysa as they travel to the south of Mexico to learn more about the Lacandon Mayan people. Listen closely to find out more about three theoretical terms that we learned throughout the semester: strategic essentialism, folklorization, and co-constitutive relationships.
Works cited:
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