BOOKS AUTHORED
2002
Ancient Nasca Settlement and Society. University of Iowa Press. https://ipearqueologia.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/helaine-silverman-ancient-nasca-settlement-and-society-university-of-iowa-press-2002.pdf
2002
The Nasca. By Helaine Silverman and Donald A. Proulx. Blackwell.
1996
Ancient Peruvian Art. An Annotated Bibliography. G. K. Hall/Simon & Schuster Macmillan.
1993
Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca World. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City.
BOOKS EDITED
2018
Heritage of Death: Landscapes of Emotion, Memory, and Practice, edited by Mattias Frihammar and Helaine Silverman. Routledge.
2017
Heritage in Action. Making the Past in the Present, edited by Helaine Silverman, Emma Waterton and Steve Watson. Springer.
2015
Encounters with Popular Pasts. Heritage and Popular Culture, edited by Mike Robinson and Helaine Silverman. Springer.
2013
Cultural Heritage Politics in China, edited by Tami Blumenfield and Helaine Silverman. Springer.
2011
Contested Cultural Heritage: Religion, Nationalism, Erasure and Exclusion in a Global World, edited by Helaine Silverman. Springer.
2009
Intangible Heritage Embodied, edited by D. Fairchild Ruggles and Helaine Silverman. Springer.
2008
Handbook of South American Archaeology, edited by Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell. Springer.
2007
Cultural Heritage and Human Rights, edited by Helaine Silverman and Fairchild Ruggles. Springer.
2006
Archaeological Site Museums in Latin America, edited by Helaine Silverman. University Press of Florida.
2006
Andean Archaeology III: North and South, edited by William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman. Springer.
2005
Anthropology and Humanism, volume 30, number 2, themed issue: “Performance, Tourism and Ethnographic Practice: An Exploration of the Work of Edward M. Bruner.” Edited by Helaine Silverman.
2004
Andean Archaeology, edited by Helaine Silverman. Blackwell Global Archaeology Series. Blackwell.
2002
Andean Archaeology II: Art, Landscape, and Society, edited by Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell. Plenum/Kluwer.
2002
Andean Archaeology I: Variations in Sociopolitical Organization, edited by William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman. Plenum/Kluwer, New York.
2002
The Space and Place of Death, edited by Helaine Silverman and David B. Small. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, Number 11.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Accepted
Murder, Normalization and Pride: A Tale of Two Memorials in Southern Illinois’ Coal Country. Illinois Heritage.
2024
Memorializing and performing the Cherry Mine Disaster of 1909. Illinois Heritage,September-October, pp. 21-27.
2024
Always Alton. Branding History as a Tourism Attractor. Illinois Heritage, January-February, pp. 20-26.
2024
The Future of Historic Preservation. Illinois Heritage January-February, pp. 50-51.
2023
Remembering Pana’s African American Miners. Illinois Heritage, November-December, pp 36-39.
2022
Coal Mining and the University of Illinois. Illinois Heritage, pp. 16-18.
2022
The Mythic Mississippi Project. Investigate, Interpret, Invest in Illinois. Illinois Heritage, July-August, pp. 34-39.
2020
The Inca in the Plaza. Debating Change in the World Heritage Historic Urban Center of Cusco, Peru. International Journal of Heritage Studies 26 (11): 1092-1108.
2017
Managing the Past, Engaging the Present: An Interview with Douglas C. Comer, President, ICAHM. American Anthropologist 119(1):122-125. “World Anthropologies” special section on cultural heritage management, edited by Helaine Silverman.
2015
The Measurement by Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) of Disturbance within the Nazca World Heritage Site. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 17(3):270-286. (by Bruce D. Chapman, Douglas C. Comer, Johny A. Isla and Helaine Silverman)
2013
What’s in a Name? A Geography of Heritage Revisited. International Journal of Heritage Studies 19(4): 388-394.
2012
Contesting Archaeological Tourism in Phimai, Thailand. Anthropology News, volume 53, no. 8, October, pp. 35-36.
2011
Epilogue: Perspectives on Community Archaeology. In Archaeologies of Engagement, Representation, and Identity, edited by Paul A. Shackel and David Gadsby. Themed issue of Historical Archaeology, volume 45, number 1, pp. 152-166.
2011
Border Wars: The Ongoing Temple Dispute Between Thailand and Cambodia and UNESCO’s World Heritage List. International Journal of Heritage Studies 17(1):1-21.
2008
Mayor Daniel Estrada and the Plaza de Armas of Cuzco, Peru. Heritage Management 1(2): 181-218.
2006
Cultural Resource Management and Heritage Stewardship in Peru. CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship 3 (2): 57-72.
2006
CA* comment on “Crucible of Andean Civilization: The Peruvian Coast from 3000-1800 BC” (by Jonathan Haas and Winifred Creamer). Current Anthropology 47 (5): 762-763.
2005
Embodied Heritage, Identity Politics and Tourism. Anthropology and Humanism 30 (2): 141-155.
2005
Introduction: Performance, Tourism, and Ethnographic Practice: An Exploration of the Work of Edward M. Bruner. Anthropology and Humanism 30 (2): 113-115.
2005
Two Museums, Two Visions: Representing Cultural Heritage in Cusco, Peru. The SAA Archaeological Record 5 (3): 29-32.
2004
Subverting the venue: a critical exhibition of pre-Columbian objects at Krannert Art Museum. American Anthropologist 106 (4): 732-738.
2004
Museos y patrimonio cultural en la ciudad del Cusco. Crónicas Urbanas. Año IX, Número 9-10, pp. 181-189. Centro Guaman Poma de Ayala, Cusco.
2002
Touring ancient times: the present and presented past in contemporary Peru. American Anthropologist 104 (3): 881-902.
2002
Groovin’ to ancient Peru: a critical analysis of Disney’s “The Emperor’s New Groove.” Journal of Social Archaeology 2 (3): 298-322.
2002
Heritage Tourism and Public Archaeology. By Teresa L. Hoffman, Mary L. Kwas and Helaine Silverman. The SAA Archaeological Record 2 (2): 30-32, 44.
2000
Peru’s present and future. In Society for Latin American Anthropology column, Anthropology News, April, pp. 71-72. (American Anthropological Association)
1999
Archaeology and the 1997 Peruvian hostage crisis. Anthropology Today 15 (1): 9-13.
1997
The first field season of excavations at the Alto del Molino site, Pisco Valley, Peru. Journal of Field Archaeology 24 (4): 441-457.
1997
Anthropologist as film star. Anthropology Newsletter 38 (6): 40-41 (American Anthropological Association)
1996
The Formative Period on the South Coast of Peru: A Critical Review. Journal of World Prehistory 10 (2): 95-146.
1995
Recent archaeological investigations on the south coast of Peru: critique and prospects. Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society 23 (1-2): 13-42.
1994
Archaeological identification of an ancient Peruvian pilgrimage center. World Archaeology 26 (1): 1-18.
1994
Paracas in Nazca: New data on the Early Horizon occupation of the Río Grande de Nazca Drainage, Peru. Latin American Antiquity 5 (4): 359-382.
1993
Patrones de asentamiento en el valle de Ingenio, cuenca del Río Grande de Nazca: una propuesta preliminar. Gaceta Arqueológica Andina 23: 103-124.
1993
A cache of 48 Nasca trophy heads from Cerro Carapo, Peru. By David M. Browne, Helaine Silverman, and Rubén García. Latin American Antiquity 4 (3): 274-294.
1993
Who Owns the Past? The Potential Privatization of Archaeology in Peru. Public Archaeology Review 1(1): 1, 7.
1992
Estudio de los patrones de asentamiento y reconstrucción de la antigua sociedad Nasca. Boletín de Lima 82: 33-44.
1992
Sobre la antiguedad de los geoglifos de Nazca: observaciones a Clarkson y Dorn. Boletín de Lima 83: 5-9.
1992
Hacia una arqueología social en los Andes: una perspectiva norteamericana. Boletín de Lima 84: 14-16.
1991
New evidence for the date of the Nazca Lines. By Helaine Silverman and David M. Browne. Antiquity 65 (247): 208-220.
1991
Between the lines: Reading the Nazca markings as rituals writ large. By Anthony Aveni and Helaine Silverman. The Sciences 31 (4): 36-42.
1991
Las líneas de Nazca: una nueva síntesis de datos de la pampa y de los valles. By Anthony Aveni and Helaine Silverman. Revista Andina 9 (2): 367-392.
1991
Reply to Isbell. By Anthony Aveni and Helaine Silverman. The Sciences 31(6):4.
1990
Beyond the pampa: The geoglyphs of the valleys of Nazca. National Geographic Research 6 (4): 435-356.
1988
Cahuachi: non-urban cultural complexity on the south coast of Peru. Journal of Field Archaeology 15 (4): 403-430.
1988
Nasca 8: A reassessment of its chronological placement and cultural significance. Michigan Discussions in Anthropology: Multidisciplinary Studies in Andean Anthropology 8: 23-32.
1988
De la historia antigua del Perú: la obtención de cabezas trofeo. Boletín de Lima 58: 49-56. Lima, Peru.
1987
A Nasca 8 occupation at an early Nasca site: The Room of the Posts at Cahuachi. Andean Past 1: 5-55.
1987
Una ocupación Nasca 8 en Cahuachi. Gaceta Arqueológica Andina 13: 10-14.
1986
La investigación arqueológica y el uso de la analogía etnográfica: el caso de las plazas y espacios abiertos de Cahuachi. Revista Andina 8: 465-478.
1986
Modelos espaciales y geoglifos de la cultura nasca. By Helaine Silverman and José Pineda. Documentos de Arquitectura y Urbanismo 1 (1): 15-21. Lima, Peru.
1985
Cahuachi: simplemente monumental. Boletín de Lima 41: 85-95. Lima, Peru.
1985
Monumentos y monumentalidad. Anthropologica 3: 249-259. Lima, Peru.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Accepted
The (un)Necessity of Heritage Listings or All Lists Are Not Alike. In Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism, edited by Michael A. Di Giovine, et al.
In Press
What Would Mother Jones Have Said? The Progressive Miners of America and Their Monument. In Combating Oppression with New Commemorations, edited by Christopher Fennell. Routledge.
2020
Learning from Ground Zero: The Presence of Absence at Two Sites of Destruction. In The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues. Heritage Reconstruction in Theory and Practice, edited by Masanori Nagaoka, pp. 185-201. Springer.
2020
Memory, pride and politics on parade: the Durham Miners’ Gala, by Andreas Pantazatos and Helaine Silverman. In Heritage and Festivals in Europe, edited by Ullrich Kockel, Cristina Clopot, Baiba Tjarve and Máiréad Nic Craith, pp. 110-127. Routledge.
2019
Affiliative Reterritorialization: The Manco Capac Monument and the Japanese Community in Peru. In Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations, edited by Cornelius Holtorf, Andreas Pantazatos and Geoffrey Scarre, pp. 110-127. Routledge.
2018
Heritage of Death: Emotion, Memory and Practice, by Mattias Frihammar and Helaine Silverman. In Heritage of Death. Landscapes of Emotion, Memory and Practice, edited by Mattias Frihammar and Helaine Silverman, pp. 3-19. Routledge.
2017
An Introduction to Heritage in Action, by Emma Waterton, Steve Watson and Helaine Silverman. In Heritage in Action: Making the Past in the Present, edited by Helaine Silverman, Emma Waterton and Steve Watson, pp. 3-16. Springer, New York.
2017
Heritage on the Go: Abbreviated Heritage in a Mobile World. In Heritage in Action: Making the Past in the Present, edited by Helaine Silverman, Emma Waterton and Steve Watson, pp. 183-200. Springer.
2016
An Andeanist’s Perspective on the Newark Earthworks. In The Earthworks of Newark, Ohio: Enduring Monuments, Contested Meanings. Edited by Lindsay Jones and Richard D. Shiels, pp. 97-110. University of Virginia Press.
2016
The ruinscape: UNESCO, the State, and the construction of identity and heritage in Phimai, Thailand. In Finding Solutions for Protecting and Sharing Archaeological Heritage Resources, edited by Anne Underhill and Lucy Salazar, pp. 33-53. Springer.
2016
Cultural Heritage Under the Gaze of National Tourism Marketing Campaigns, by Helaine Silverman and Richard W. Hallett. In Blackwell Companion to the New Heritage Studies, edited by William S. Logan, Mairead Nic Craith, and Ulrich Kockel, pp. 176-188. Wiley Blackwell.
2015
Branding Peru: National Tourism Campaigns and the Performance of Heritage. In Encounters with Popular Pasts. Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture, edited by Mike Robinson and Helaine Silverman, pp. 131-148. Springer.
2015
Mass, Modern, Mine: Heritage and Popular Culture, by Mike Robinson and Helaine Silverman. In Encounters with Popular Pasts. Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture, edited by Mike Robinson and Helaine Silverman, pp. 1-30. Springer.
2015
Heritage and Authenticity. In A Companion to Contemporary Heritage Research, edited by Emma Waterton and Steve Watson, pp. 69-88. Palgrave Macmillan.
2013
Cultural Heritage Politics in China: An Introduction. By Helaine Silverman and Tami Blumenfield. In Cultural Heritage Politics in China, edited by Tami Blumenfield and Helaine Silverman, pp. 1-20. Springer.
2013
Cuzcotopia: Imagining and Performing the Incas. In Heritage and Tourism. Place, Encounter, Engagement, edited by Russell Staiff, Robyn Bushell and Steve Watson, pp. 128-151. Routledge.
2012
The Space of Heroism in the Historic Center of Cuzco. In On Location: Heritage Cities and Sites, edited by D. Fairchild Ruggles, pp. 89-113. Springer, New York.
2011
Contested Cultural Heritage: A Selective Historiography. In Contested Cultural Heritage: Religion, Nationalism, Erasure and Exclusion in a Global World, edited by Helaine Silverman, pp. 1-49, Springer, New York.
2010
A Portfolio of Expertise Providing On-the-Ground Solutions: The Collaborative for Cultural Heritage and Museum Practices (CHAMP) at the University of Illinois and the Role of Universities in Cultural Heritage Protection. In Proceedings of the World Universities Congress, Volume II, pp. 1354-1360. Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale, Turkey.
2009
Embodied Heritage, Identity Politics and Tourism. In Archaeologies and Ethnographies: Iterations of ‘Heritage’ and the Archaeological Past, edited by Lena Mortensen and Julie Hollowell, pp. 3-26. University Press of Florida. (revised version of article in Anthropology and Humanism 30 (2):141-155.
2009
From Tangible to Intangible Heritage: An Introduction, by D. Fairchild Ruggles and Helaine Silverman. In Intangible Heritage Embodied, edited by D. Fairchild Ruggles and Helaine Silverman, pp. 1-14. Springer.
2009
Comparaciones y contrastes entre la costa sur y la costa central del Perú durante el Período Formativo. In Arqueología del Período Formativo en la Cuenca Baja de Lurín, edited by Richard L. Burger and Krzysztof Makowski, pp. 429-490. Fondo Editorial, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima.
2008
Nasca. Nazca. Continuities and Discontinuities on the South Coast of Peru. In Global Perspectives on the Collapse of Complex Systems, edited by Jim A. Railey and Richard Martin Reycraft, pp. 83-100. Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Anthropological Papers, No. 8.
2008
Afterword. In Roads Less Traveled by James Warfield. Pp. 258-259. Tongji University Press, Shanghai, China.
2008
Between the lines: reading the Nazca markings as rituals writ large. By Anthony Aveni and Helaine Silverman. In Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy, edited by Anthony F. Aveni, pp. 621-633. University of Colorado Press. (reprinted from The Sciences 31[4]:36-42, 1991)
2008
Continental Introduction. In Handbook of South American Archaeology, edited by Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell, pp. 3-26. Springer.
2007
Cultural Heritage and Human Rights by Helaine Silverman and D. Fairchild Ruggles. In Cultural Heritage and Human Rights, edited by Helaine Silverman and D. Fairchild Ruggles, pp. 3-22. Springer.
2007
Groovin’ to ancient Peru: a critical analysis of Disney’s “The Emperor’s New Groove.” In Telling Children About the Past, edited by Nena Galanidou and Liv Dommasnes, pp. 103-124. International Monographs in Prehistory, Oxbow Books, Oxford. [revision of the 2002 article in Journal of Social Archaeology]
2007
Contemporary Museum Practice in Cusco, Peru. In Archaeology and Capitalism. From Ethics to Politics, edited by Philip Duke and Yannis Hamilakis, pp. 195-212. Left Coast Press.
2006
Archaeological Site Museums in Latin America. In Archaeological Site Museums in Latin America, edited by Helaine Silverman. pp. 3-17. University Press of Florida.
2006
The Historic District of Cusco as an Open-Air Site Museum. In Archaeological Site Museums in Latin America, edited by Helaine Silverman, pp. 159-183. University Press of Florida.
2006
Regional Patterns. By William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman. In Andean Archaeology III: North and South, edited by William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman, pp. 3-19. Springer.
2006
Rethinking the Central Andean Co-Tradition. By William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman. In Andean Archaeology III: North and South, edited by William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman, pp. 499-520. Springer.
2006
The North: Introduction. By William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman. In Andean Archaeology III: North and South, edited by William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman, pp. 23-27. Springer.
2006
The South: Introduction. By William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman. In Andean Archaeology III: North and South, edited by William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman, pp. 199-209. Springer.
2004
Introduction. In Andean Archaeology, edited by Helaine Silverman, pp. 1-15. Blackwell.
2002
Introduction. In The Space and Place of Death, edited by Helaine Silverman and David B. Small, pp. 1-12. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, Number 11.
2002
Mortuary Narratives of Identity and History in Modern Cemeteries of Lima, Peru. In The Space and Place of Death, edited by Helaine Silverman and David B. Small, pp. 167-190. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, Number 11.
2002
Nasca Settlement and Society on the Hundredth Anniversary of Uhle’s Discovery of the Nasca Style. In Andean Archaeology I: Variations in Sociopolitical Organization, edited by William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman, pp. 121-158. Plenum/Kluwer.
2002
Differentiating Paracas Necropolis and Early Nasca Textiles. In Andean Archaeology II: Art, Landscape, and Society, edited by Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell, pp. 71-106. Plenum/Kluwer.
2002
From Art to Material Culture. By Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell. In Andean Archaeology II: Art, Landscape, and Society, edited by Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell, pp. 3-20. Plenum/Kluwer.
2002
Andean Art and Society. By Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell. In Andean Archaeology II: Art, Landscape, and Society, edited by Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell, pp. 23-34. Plenum/Kluwer.
2002
Landscapes of Power. By Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell. In Andean Archaeology II: Art, Landscape, and Society, edited by Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell, pp. 181-188. Plenum/Kluwer.
2002
Issues of Cultural Production and Reproduction. By Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell. In Andean Archaeology II: Art, Landscape, and Society, edited by Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell, pp. 357-364. Plenum/Kluwer.
2002
Theorizing Variations in Andean Sociopolitical Organization. By William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman. In Andean Archaeology I: Variations in Sociopolitical Organization, edited by William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman, pp. 3-11. Plenum/Kluwer.
2002
Early Andean Civilizations. By William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman. In Andean Archaeology I: Variations in Sociopolitical Organization, edited by William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman, pp. 15-20. Plenum/Kluwer.
2002
Traditions of Imperialism in the Andes. By William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman. In Andean Archaeology I: Variations in Sociopolitical Organization, edited by William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman, pp. 161-168. Plenum/Kluwer.
2002
Solving Puzzles of the Past. By William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman. In Andean Archaeology I: Variations in Sociopolitical Organization, edited by William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman, pp. 339-340. Plenum/Kluwer.
2002
Writing the Andes with a Capital A. By William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman. In Andean Archaeology I: Variations in Sociopolitical Organization, edited by William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman, pp. 371-380. Plenum/Kluwer.
2001
Geografia sagrada, ancestros y agua en la vida ritual de los antiguos nasca. In Los Dioses de los Andes Prehispánicos, edited by Cristóbal Makowski, pp. 239-275. Banco de Crédito, Lima.
1996
Musicians of the Desert. In Birds on a Drum. Conservation of a Pre-Columbian Musical Instrument, pp. 8-12. Exhibition Catalog. Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
1996
Contextualizando la muerte en los cementerios de Paracas. In Al Final del Camino, edited by Luis Millones and Moisés Lemlij, pp. 1-10. Seminario Interdisciplinario de Estudios Andinos, Lima.
1993
Style and State in Ancient Peru. In Imagery and Creativity. Ethnoaesthetics and Art Worlds in the Americas, edited by Dorothea S. Whitten and Norman E. Whitten, pp.129-169. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
1992
The Nazca Lines: Sacred Geography and Cult Archaeology. In Broken Images: The Figured Landscape of Nazca, by David Parker, pp. 7-13. Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester, England.
1991
The Ethnography and Archaeology of Two Andean Pilgrimage Centers. In Pilgrimage in Latin America, edited by N. Ross Crumrine and Alan Morinis, pp. 215-228. Greenwood Press.
1991
The Paracas Problem: Archaeological Perspectives. In Paracas Art and Architecture: Object and Context in South Coastal Peru, edited by Anne Paul, pp. 349-415. University of Iowa Press.
1990
The Early Nasca Pilgrimage Center of Cahuachi and the Nazca Lines. Anthropological and Archaeological Perspectives. In The Lines of Nazca, edited by Anthony Aveni, pp. 209-244. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.