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Chapter 5: Taking '...Figure 1.1: Ethics⇔Knowledge Networked Sphere (after Quine 1994: ‘Sphere of Knowledge’).
Figure 3.1: Binford’s two-phase account of objectivity.
Figure 3.2: Relationship between ‘artifacts and texts’.
Figure 3.3: Hodder’s hermeneutic spiral of interpretation.
Figure 3.4: Wylie’s tacking schema in her ‘mitigated objectivism’.
Figure 3.5: The ‘Modern Constitution’.
Figure 3.6: Modernist epistemology – in archaeology for example.
Figure 3.7: Latour’s transformation via reduction-amplification.
Figure 3.8: Latour’s ‘Circulating Reference’ – drawing together world and word in mediation.
Figure 4.1: The Mazapan Map of Teotihuacan.
Figure 4.2: Map of Teotihuacan from Relación de Tequizatlán y su partido.
Figure 4.3: The ‘Millon Map’.
Figure 4.4: Teotihuacan Mapping Project’s ‘map 1’ with satellite imagery of Teotihuacan with adjacent towns labeled.
Figure 4.5: Mercurial maps: the ‘Millon Map’ with mixed maps of subsequent projects.
Figure 4.6: The Almaraz Map.
Figure 4.7: Marquina’s map of 1919.
Figure 4.8: Manuel Gamio’s (relief) map of Teotihuacan.
Figure 5.1: Teotihuacan Mapping Project’s ‘map 1’ with satellite imagery of Teotihuacan with adjacent towns labeled (after Millon 1973a).
Figure 5.2: Self-identified Shaman (and apprentice) burning copal outside of the ciudadela.
Figure 5.3: Local spiritual leader and head of the Civic Front for the Defense of the Teotihuacan Valley conducting a ritual for rain at her restaurant-cum-healing center.
Figure 5.4: Diagram of questionnaire development: moving from concepts to specific questions.
Figure 5.5: Satellite image of Teotihuacan Valley with archaeological zone and proximate pueblos labeled.
Figure 5.6: INAH archaeologist with the Center for Teotihuacan Studies, commissioned to distribute an ‘official questionnaire’.
Figure 5.7: Sampling in the pueblos: stall owner in San Juan.
Figure 6.1: Number of visits to Teotihuacan.
Figure 6.2: Number of visits by location of residence (pueblos located in the Valley of Teotihuacan are named).
Figure 6.3: Employment at Teotihuacan: respondent works at Teotihuacan by member of respondent's family works at Teotihuacan.
Figure 6.4: Indirect causal relationship residency with visitation controlling for economic motivation.
Figure 6.5: Craftsperson who ‘works’ unofficially at Teotihuacan.
Figure 6.6: Number of visits by ‘workers’.
Figure 6.7: Number of visits by ‘visitors’.
Figure 6.8: Number of visits by ‘students’.
Figure 6.9: Number of visits by workers by where respondent lives (pueblos located in the Valley of Teotihuacan are named).
Figure 6.10: Number of visits by students by where respondent lives (pueblos located in the Valley of Teotihuacan are named).
Figure 6.11: Number of visits by education level of respondent.
Figure 6.12: Number of visits by visitors by education level of respondent.
Figure 6.13: Number of visits by age of respondent.
Figure 6.14: Number of visits by visitors by income of respondent.
Figure 6.15: Seasonal excavation laborer with the Temple of the Feathered Serpent Restoration Project.
Figure 6.16: Workers’ occupations at Teotihuacan.
Figure 6.17: What area of site respondents are interested in by number of visits.
Figure 6.18: What area of site workers are interested in by number of visits.
Figure 6.19: Main road leading from archaeological zone to San Juan with wall proclaiming that the property is ‘outside of INAH’s jurisdiction’.
Figure 6.20: Centro de Estudios de Teotihuacanos with author (right) and INAH archaeologist.
Figure 6.21: Auditorium of Centro de Estudios Teotihuacanos during a pubic discussion of heritage and management policies at Teotihuacan.
Figure 6.22: Valley resident showing archaeological artifacts he ‘found’ within Teotihuacan’s protected perimeter.
Figure 6.23: Frequency Distribution: Archaeology Scale Score.
Figure 6.24: Indirect causal relationship: works at Teotihuacan with archaeology scale score controlling for intervening variables.
Figure 6.25: Frequency Distribution: Archaeology Scale Score for workers.
Figure 6.26: Frequency Distribution: Archaeology Scale Score for students.
Figure 6.27: Frequency Distribution: Heritage Scale Score.
Figure 6.28: Indirect causal relationship: works at Teotihuacan with heritage scale.
Figure 6.29: Frequency Distribution: Heritage Scale Score for visitors.
Figure 6.30: Frequency Distribution: Heritage Scale Score for students.
Figure 6.31: Protest on highway leading from San Juan to gate 1 of archaeological zone.
Figure 6.32: Protest banner reading “Walmart – out of our cultural heritage!”
Figure 6.33: Cartoon from Mexican blog: summarizes the two primary concerns: the juxtaposition of transnational (American) identity with Mexican identity; economic affect upon local markets.
Figure 6.34: Walmart Teotihuacan (empty on most weekdays).
Figure 6.35: Frequencies: attitudes to whether the construction of Walmart has affected Teotihuacan.
Figure 6.36: Line graph: attitudes to Walmart’s impact on Teotihuacan by income level.
Figure 6.37: Metro stop in Mexico City: the Pyramid of the Sun (poster on left) appeared all over in political flyers for the PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) campaign leading up to the elections of 2006.
Figure 6.38: market stalls lining the entrance (gate 2) to the archaeological zone.
Figure 6.39: Tourists (most Mexican) watching a dance performance at in the Pyramid of the Sun plaza by a Mexico City Aztec dance troop.
Figure 6.40: A motorized tram which operates on the busiest days to transport visitors between the major monuments.
Figure 6.41: Frequency distribution: Diversion Scale Score.
Figure 6.42: Frequency distribution: Diversion Scale Score for visitors.
Figure 6.43: Frequency distribution: Diversion Scale Score for students.
Figure 6.44: Indirect causal relationship: education level with diversion scale score controlling for visit to learn about culture and origin.
Figure 6.45: Local San Juan market (above) and Teotihuacan Walmart aisles (below).
Figure 6.46: Frequency distribution: Personal Economic Scale Score for workers.
Figure 6.47: Pie chart: occupations at Teotihuacan by percentage.
Figure 6.48: Wandering crafts vendor (vendedor ambulante).
Figure 6.49: Security guard (completing questionnaire).
Figure 6.50: ‘Off-site’ obsidian workshop (taller de obsidiana) in San Sebastian, suppliers of obsidian objects to sell for vendedores and local crafts shops.
Figure 6.51: Maintenance at Teotihuacan: a janitor and the upkeep of 263 hectares of the central zone.
Figure 6.52: Restoration workers (seasonal) in the Ciudadela, part of the Temple of the Feathered Serpent restoration project.
Figure 6.53: Archaeologists and seasonal excavation laborers in the Ciudadela, part of the Temple of the Feathered Serpent restoration project.
Figure 6.54: Where ‘workers’ reside (pueblos in the Valley of Teotihuacan are named).
Figure 6.55: Indirect causal relationship: gender with personal economic scale score controlling for income; independent causal relationship of residency to economic scale score.
Figure 6.56: Frequency distribution: General Economic Scale Score.
Figure 6.57: Frequency distribution: General Economic Scale Score for ‘workers’.
Figure 6.58: Spurious relationships of co-variation between general economic scale score, works at Teotihuacan, where respondent lives and age.
Figure 6.59: Aztec dance troop (bailadores) in the Pyramid of the Sun plaza.
Figure 6.60: Typical group of ‘pilgrims’ to the apex of the Pyramid of the Sun to collect ‘energy’.
Figure 6.61: Frequencies: Healing Spirituality Scale Score.
Figure 6.62: Frequency distribution: ‘Irrational’ Spirituality Scale Score.
Figure 6.63: Indirect causal relationship: education with healing spiritual scale score controlling for income and visits museums.
Figure 6.64: Indirect causal relationship of age on spiritual (‘irrational’) scale score.
Figure 6.65: Boxplot of relative strength of all scale score distributions.
Figure 6.66: Multidimensional representation of the ‘circuitry’ comprising Teotihuacan: relative importance of variables in relation to associations determined by where variable lines (vertical) intersect respective association lines (diagonal) (heritage not given for simplicity).
Figure 6.67: Scatter-plot of archaeology, ‘irrational’ spirituality, and diversion scales.