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Sam Holley-Kline
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anthro PhD | book: In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico (@univnebpress.bsky.social) | co-editor @bhajournal.bsky.social‬ | published work: hcommons.org/members/sholleykline/
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PUBLICATION DAY for In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico!

Use discount code 6AF25 for 40% off—that's $18 plus taxes and shipping (paperback/ebook)! Thanks, @univnebpress.bsky.social!

For more: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978....

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Flyer for book, IN THE SHADOW OF EL TAJIN: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico. "Immensely important.... Sam Holley-Kline reframes the archaeological site of El Tajín as a location of recent, rather than just ancient, Indigenous history. In the Shadow of El Tajín makes a significant contribution to the emerging field of the history of archaeology in Mexico and beyond, as well as to our understanding of Mexican political economy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries." -LISA PINLEY COVERT, author of San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site. Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination and national symbol. The Indigenous Totonac residents of the region know well that the site's relative absence from discussions of global archaeology and heritage belies a century of wide-ranging labor, extractive industries, and commodity exchange. In the Shadow of El Tajin tells the story of how a landscape of ancient mounds and ruins became an archaeological site, brings to light the network of actors who made it happen, and reveals the Indigenous histories silenced in the process. By drawing on the insights of Indigenous Totonac peoples who have lived and worked in El Tajín for more than a century, Sam Holley-Kline explores historical processes that made both the archaeological site and regional historical memory. In the Shadow of El Tajín decenters discussions of the state and tourism industry by focusing on the industries and workers who are integral to the functioning of the site but who have historically been overlooked by studies of the ancient past. Holley-Kline recovers local Indigenous histories in dialogue with broader trends in scholarship to demonstrate the rich recent past of El Tajín, a place better known for its ancient history. SAVE 40% with code 6AF25 at nebraskapress.unl.edu
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
sholleykline.bsky.social
that's right!!! for everything you ever wanted to know about vanilla... well, you should probably check out Emilio Kourí's A Pueblo Divided. but if you want to know what vanilla has to do with violence in the countryside, heritage management, or Trakgátlokg, check out my book!!!
larissakelly.bsky.social Larissa Kelly @larissakelly.bsky.social · 5d
Sam's book doesn't just have Mexican pyramids and histories of archaeological labor, it has a chapter titled "Vanilla: Violence and Temporality."
November 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
sholleykline.bsky.social
@univnebpress.bsky.social is having a whole-catalog holiday sale! Use discount code 6HLW25 for 50% off through the end of the year! That's $15 for paperback/ebook editions of my book. ICYMI: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

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In the Shadow of El Tajín - Nebraska Press
Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination and n...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Don’t buy Starbucks coffee. Don’t buy Windmill Mushrooms. Solidarity forever! #NoContractNoCoffee

No compres café de Starbucks. No compres hongos de Windmill Mushrooms. ¡Solidaridad para siempre!
Windmill Farms mushroom workers standing in front of a Starbucks in Washington State holding signs that say: windmill mushroom workers support striking Starbucks workers #NoContractNoCoffee and Boycott Windmill indmill mushrooms #NoContractNoMushrooms
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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tgpeterson.bsky.social
Hey historians 🗃️: Do you know of presses that publish short books (around 30K words / 90 pages plus notes)? I have been working on an article project that could easily turn into an great micro-history of that length, but I'm not sure it would make it to the usual full 60-90K words...
November 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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ubiquity75.xyz
UC prez Millikan has BACKED OFF murdering the PPFP program, due, I am sure, in no small part to the UCLAFA/UCFA/AAUP win in court on Friday!!

When we fight, we win!
After learning more about the history and success of the program and weighing the thoughtful perspectives that have been shared, I have concluded that barring extraordinary financial setbacks, the PPFP faculty hiring incentive program will continue while the University continues to assess the program's structure as well as its long-term financial sustainability. As a result of our continuing consultation and review, there may be consideration of some changes to elements of the program including the total number of incentives supported, a number that has fluctuated significantly over the years, and how the awards are distributed among campuses. In the meantime, the University will continue to fund the PPFP faculty hiring incentive program and campuses may continue to take advantage of these incentives. We will have an opportunity to discuss any potential changes prior to adoption.
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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kwissoker.bsky.social
This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
heimbergecon.bsky.social Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 8d
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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lheathstout.bsky.social
I'm giving a talk at my work this week that is being broadcast online via Zoom! Maybe you're interested in watching?

"Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies"
Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific

#academicsky 🏺♿
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
sholleykline.bsky.social
thanks to Rachel for the best endorsement of my book's cost-to-endnote ratio yet!!! you heard it here first, folks!!! a bargain at twice the price!!!
rachelgracenewman.bsky.social Rachel Grace Newman @rachelgracenewman.bsky.social · 12d
That is a great deal on endnotes 😂
November 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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bookfomerical time!!! order In the Shadow of El Tajín from @univnebpress.bsky.social NOW w/ discount code 𝟔𝐀𝐅𝟐𝟓 and get S I X BODY CHAPTERS, 20+ figures, and 700+ endnotes for JUST $18 (+ shipping and taxes)!!! now THAT’s what i call 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺!!!

www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.

Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.

Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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sholleykline.bsky.social
A quick shout-out to the @univnebpress.bsky.social for #UPWeek! I had the benefit of a stellar team for my book—thanks to @bridgetrbarry.bsky.social and @emilykcasillas.bsky.social (editorial), Sara Springsteen (project management), Lindsey Welch (design), and Madison Wigley (marketing).
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
sholleykline.bsky.social
A quick shout-out to the @univnebpress.bsky.social for #UPWeek! I had the benefit of a stellar team for my book—thanks to @bridgetrbarry.bsky.social and @emilykcasillas.bsky.social (editorial), Sara Springsteen (project management), Lindsey Welch (design), and Madison Wigley (marketing).
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot. A CNN review of nearly 70 pages of chats between Shamblin and the AI tool in the hours before his July 25 suicide, as well as excerpts from thousands more pages in the months leading up to that night, found that the chatbot repeatedly encouraged the young man as he discussed ending his life – right up to his last moments.
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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museumofloot.bsky.social
Denver Post confirms what we’ve been hearing: nearly all federal HSI agents with expertise on cultural property crimes have been reassigned to immigration duties in recent months.

Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market.

www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
The U.S. was a leader in cultural heritage investigations. Now those agents are working immigration enforcement.
Homeland Security Investigations, the department’s investigative arm, once had as many as eight agents in its New York office investigating cultural property cases.
www.denverpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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metalclassicist.bsky.social
Got the editors' blessing to share this news. My chapter "National Socialist Black Metal & the Usurpation of Greece and Rome" will appear in the forthcoming volume "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by Helen Roche and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social!
Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right, edited by Helen Roche and Denise Eileen McCoskey
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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sholleykline.bsky.social
PUBLICATION DAY for In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico!

Use discount code 6AF25 for 40% off—that's $18 plus taxes and shipping (paperback/ebook)! Thanks, @univnebpress.bsky.social!

For more: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978....

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Flyer for book, IN THE SHADOW OF EL TAJIN: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico. "Immensely important.... Sam Holley-Kline reframes the archaeological site of El Tajín as a location of recent, rather than just ancient, Indigenous history. In the Shadow of El Tajín makes a significant contribution to the emerging field of the history of archaeology in Mexico and beyond, as well as to our understanding of Mexican political economy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries." -LISA PINLEY COVERT, author of San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site. Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination and national symbol. The Indigenous Totonac residents of the region know well that the site's relative absence from discussions of global archaeology and heritage belies a century of wide-ranging labor, extractive industries, and commodity exchange. In the Shadow of El Tajin tells the story of how a landscape of ancient mounds and ruins became an archaeological site, brings to light the network of actors who made it happen, and reveals the Indigenous histories silenced in the process. By drawing on the insights of Indigenous Totonac peoples who have lived and worked in El Tajín for more than a century, Sam Holley-Kline explores historical processes that made both the archaeological site and regional historical memory. In the Shadow of El Tajín decenters discussions of the state and tourism industry by focusing on the industries and workers who are integral to the functioning of the site but who have historically been overlooked by studies of the ancient past. Holley-Kline recovers local Indigenous histories in dialogue with broader trends in scholarship to demonstrate the rich recent past of El Tajín, a place better known for its ancient history. SAVE 40% with code 6AF25 at nebraskapress.unl.edu
November 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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meghanbartels.bsky.social
Don't cross the picket line--no reading Science News today! These journalists deserve a fair contract that recognizes the value they bring to the company.
sn-media-guild.bsky.social Science News Media Guild @sn-media-guild.bsky.social · 23d
Workers of the Science News Media Guild will conduct a 24-hour #strike on Wednesday, 11/5. This comes after our members voted to reject the Society’s latest contract proposal. Our members previously voted by 92% to authorize a strike against the @society4science.bsky.social, if necessary.
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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artemis-p.bsky.social
Hot off the press and OA! The new issue of Diyar has a special section on the history of art and museology in the Ottoman Empire. Check it out: nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...
Shared for reference; opinions not my own. #MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology
DIYÂR - Nomos eLibrary
Diyâr ist eine neue interdisziplinäre und Regionen übergreifende wissenschaftliche Fachzeitschrift, herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für Turkologie, Osm…
nomos-elibrary.de
November 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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paleoethnobot.bsky.social
Senate hearings aren’t done for funsies. Section 106 is in the sights of the deregulation efforts of this administration. Speak up if you think it’s important cultural resources are considered in project permitting. www.culturalheritagepartners.com/section-106-...
Section 106 Isn’t the Bottleneck—But It’s on the Chopping Block
This week’s Senate Energy & Natural Resources hearing on Section 106 didn’t show that the NHPA causes permitting delays. It did, however, signal that threats to Section 106 are coming—and the preserva...
www.culturalheritagepartners.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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jasonhdormady.bsky.social
Conflict and Correspondence is now available from the @univnebpress.bsky.social in hard, soft, and digital. #academicsky #Mexico #Urban #Guadalajara #belonging #conflict #cities Learn how tapatios found belonging through conflict in mid-century Mexico.

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November 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
sholleykline.bsky.social
PUBLICATION DAY for In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico!

Use discount code 6AF25 for 40% off—that's $18 plus taxes and shipping (paperback/ebook)! Thanks, @univnebpress.bsky.social!

For more: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978....

🗃️📚🇲🇽🏺
Flyer for book, IN THE SHADOW OF EL TAJIN: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico. "Immensely important.... Sam Holley-Kline reframes the archaeological site of El Tajín as a location of recent, rather than just ancient, Indigenous history. In the Shadow of El Tajín makes a significant contribution to the emerging field of the history of archaeology in Mexico and beyond, as well as to our understanding of Mexican political economy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries." -LISA PINLEY COVERT, author of San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site. Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination and national symbol. The Indigenous Totonac residents of the region know well that the site's relative absence from discussions of global archaeology and heritage belies a century of wide-ranging labor, extractive industries, and commodity exchange. In the Shadow of El Tajin tells the story of how a landscape of ancient mounds and ruins became an archaeological site, brings to light the network of actors who made it happen, and reveals the Indigenous histories silenced in the process. By drawing on the insights of Indigenous Totonac peoples who have lived and worked in El Tajín for more than a century, Sam Holley-Kline explores historical processes that made both the archaeological site and regional historical memory. In the Shadow of El Tajín decenters discussions of the state and tourism industry by focusing on the industries and workers who are integral to the functioning of the site but who have historically been overlooked by studies of the ancient past. Holley-Kline recovers local Indigenous histories in dialogue with broader trends in scholarship to demonstrate the rich recent past of El Tajín, a place better known for its ancient history. SAVE 40% with code 6AF25 at nebraskapress.unl.edu
November 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR

supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
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October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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sholleykline.bsky.social
Just over a week out from publication day for my book, In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico (@univnebpress.bsky.social). Read more below or at www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978....

🗃️📚🇲🇽🏺 #skystorians #Mexico #archaeology #heritage
Flyer for book, IN THE SHADOW OF EL TAJIN: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico. "Immensely important.... Sam Holley-Kline reframes the archaeological site of El Tajín as a location of recent, rather than just ancient, Indigenous history. In the Shadow of El Tajín makes a significant contribution to the emerging field of the history of archaeology in Mexico and beyond, as well as to our understanding of Mexican political economy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries." -LISA PINLEY COVERT, author of San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site. Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination and national symbol. The Indigenous Totonac residents of the region know well that the site's relative absence from discussions of global archaeology and heritage belies a century of wide-ranging labor, extractive industries, and commodity exchange. In the Shadow of El Tajin tells the story of how a landscape of ancient mounds and ruins became an archaeological site, brings to light the network of actors who made it happen, and reveals the Indigenous histories silenced in the process. By drawing on the insights of Indigenous Totonac peoples who have lived and worked in El Tajín for more than a century, Sam Holley-Kline explores historical processes that made both the archaeological site and regional historical memory. In the Shadow of El Tajín decenters discussions of the state and tourism industry by focusing on the industries and workers who are integral to the functioning of the site but who have historically been overlooked by studies of the ancient past. Holley-Kline recovers local Indigenous histories in dialogue with broader trends in scholarship to demonstrate the rich recent past of El Tajín, a place better known for its ancient history. SAVE 40% with code 6AF25 at nebraskapress.unl.edu
October 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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paulseesequasis.bsky.social
‘Bone Box’ by Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC. “Fabricated out of discarded trays that once stored archeological collections, this interactive work calls for us to engage with one another.”
Colour image of Haida artist Yagulanaas’s ‘Bone Box,’ also associated with his Haida Manga work.
October 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM