{"id":19830,"date":"2017-05-30T08:49:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T12:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=19830"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:36:08","slug":"amateur-archivists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=19830","title":{"rendered":"Amateur archivists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amateur archivists\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CZmFW_WJv14?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Fourteen high school students listened attentively as University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill anthropologist Gabrielle Vail invited them to examine letters, drawings, photos, diaries, codices, newspapers and other Maya materials from the Southern Historical Collection in Wilson Library.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStart thinking about these materials in terms of \u2018how can I tell the story of Maya migration?\u2019\u201d Vail said. \u201cExplore them from a historical perspective, but also bring it into the present and think of a personal connection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maya from the Margins is a program that fosters cultural understanding among Maya youth on both sides of the border \u2014 Morganton, North Carolina, and Yucat\u00e1n, Mexico. Together, the students spent the year exploring their indigenous identity through workshops, online discussions, archival research and visits to their respective countries, where they met face-to-face. Both sets of students also developed research projects in English and Spanish for capstone projects.<\/p>\n<p>In April, an exhibition called \u201cRevitalizing Maya History and Heritage: My View from the Archives,\u201d that the students from Morganton and Mexico curated, was on display at Wilson Library.<\/p>\n<p>The program was funded by a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aam-us.org\/about-us\/media-room\/2016\/american-alliance-of-museums-announces-2016-museums-connect-grants\">Museums Connect<\/a>\u00a0grant, an initiative of the U.S. State Department\u2019s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, administered by the American Alliance of Museums. Partners include the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/library.unc.edu\/wilson\/shc\/\">Southern Historical Collection<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.unc.edu\/\">department of anthropology<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archaeology.sites.unc.edu\/home\/rla\/\">Research Laboratories of Archaeology<\/a>\u00a0in UNC-Chapel Hill\u2019s College of Arts &amp; Sciences\u00a0and the State Archives of Yucat\u00e1n. Vail is project coordinator of Maya from the Margins, which builds on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/in-herit.org\/\">longtime cultural heritage work<\/a>\u00a0by Kenan Eminent Professor of Anthropology Patricia McAnany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the changing texture of the South demographically \u2026 these students are grappling with all kinds of things, including \u2018how can I embrace my past and where I find myself today?\u2019\u201d said Bryan Giemza, director of the Southern Historical Collection, which houses the papers and materials of George E. Stuart, a Carolina graduate and a scholar of the ancient Maya whose archaeological career with the National Geographic Society spanned nearly four decades. \u201cThey are very insightful; their interpretations are really sophisticated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patton High School senior Eduardo Mendoza\u2019s parents traveled from Guatemala to Morganton, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in 1998 looking for better job opportunities. Mendoza said he does a lot of online research in school, so he appreciates the exposure to these rare documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can tell the professors are very passionate about what they do, and I like that I have the opportunity to ask them questions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It was also a great experience for two Carolina undergraduate students who served as mentors. Jacqueline L\u00f3pez was a senior pursuing a double major in Latin American studies and public policy. She spent six weeks in Yucat\u00e1n in 2015 and worked with the students on learning Yucatec Maya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t start developing the tools to explore my own culture until I arrived at UNC,\u201d said L\u00f3pez, a first-generation college student. \u201cTo help them do that earlier in their careers has been so rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/magarchive.unc.edu\/2017\/03\/maya\/\"><strong>Read more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Story by Kim Spurr, College of Arts &amp; Sciences and video by Melanie Busbee, University Communications<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen high school students listened attentively as University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill anthropologist Gabrielle Vail invited them to examine letters, drawings, photos, diaries, codices, newspapers and other Maya materials from the Southern Historical Collection in Wilson 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