SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
2022
Scott, Mary Katherine, “Handicrafts.” In Encyclopedia of Tourism. Revised Living Reference Edition. Jafar Jafari and Honggen Xiao, eds. New York: Springer Publishing.
2017
Scott, Mary Katherine, “Meaning in the Making: Locating Value in the Production and Consumption of Maya Tourist Arts.” In The Value of Things: Prehistoric to Contemporary Commodities in the Maya Region. Jennifer Mathews and Tom Guderjan (eds.). Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Scott, Mary Katherine, “Mediating Between Mayas and the Art Market: The Traditional-Yet-Contemporary Carved Gourd Vessel.” In The In-Betweeness of Things: Materializing Mediation and Movement between Worlds. Paul Basu (ed.). London: Bloomsbury.
2016
Scott, Mary Katherine, “Handicrafts.” In Encyclopedia of Tourism. 2nd Edition. Jafar Jafari and Honggen Xiao, eds. New York: Springer Publishing.
2012
Scott, Mary Katherine, “Engaging with Pasts in the Present: Curators, Communities and Exhibition Practice." Special volume of the same name, Museum Anthropology 35(1):1-9. Wiley-Blackwell.
Scott, Mary Katherine, “Reflections on Collaboration: Exhibiting Contemporary Maya Art.” In Engaging with Pasts in the Present: Curators, Communities and Exhibition Practice. Special volume of Museum Anthropology 35(1), M.K. Scott (ed.):71-84. Wiley-Blackwell.
2010
Scott, Mary Katherine. “Examining the Messages of Contemporary ‘Tourist Art’ in Yucatán, Mexico: Comparing Chichén Itzá and the Puuc Region.” In Tourism and Visual Culture, Volume 2: Methods and Cases. Pp. 1-12. P. Burns, J-A. Lester and L. Bibbings, eds. Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK: Cabi Press.
2009
Scott, Mary Katherine. “Representing the Maya: When is it Appropriate to call ‘Appropriations’ Art?” In Crafting Maya Identity: Contemporary Wood Sculptures from the Puuc Region of Yucatán, Mexico. exh. cat. Jeff Karl Kowalski (ed.): 174-190. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.
Scott, Mary Katherine and Jeff Karl Kowalski. “Imaging the Maya: Carvings, Carvers, Contexts, and Messages.” In Crafting Maya Identity: Contemporary Wood Sculptures from the Puuc Region of Yucatán, Mexico. exh. cat. Jeff Karl Kowalski (ed.): 3-82. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.
Scott, Mary Katherine, with Giuliana Borea. “Prólogo y Síntesis de Capítulo 1-- Traducción Español (Appendix). In Crafting Maya Identity: Contemporary Wood Sculptures from the Puuc Region of Yucatán, Mexico. exh. cat. Jeff Karl Kowalski (ed.): 191-222. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.
Kowalski, Jeff, with Mary Katherine Scott. “Preface” In Crafting Maya Identity: Contemporary Wood Sculptures from the Puuc Region of Yucatán, Mexico. exh. cat. Jeff Karl Kowalski (ed.): ix-xiii. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.
An accomplished academic, Mary Katherine Scott has built a research portfolio based on interdisciplinary methodology and ethnography. Her fieldwork in the Yucatán, Mexico investigates the effects of tourism on cultural identity (re)negotiations and revitalizations in zones of cross-cultural encounter. That is, she explores how tourists’ consumption of Maya culture and history catalyzed local ethnic Maya artisans, archaeologists, restaurant and hotel workers, tour guides, and other tourism workers to reconsider and revitalize their connection to a heritage that was all but eradicated by the Spanish in the 16th century. Ultimately, she is curious about the ways tourism can contribute to artistic, cultural, environmental, economic and other kinds of sustainability.
Her academic writings have appeared in scholarly journals, edited volumes, and other peer-reviewed publications within the humanities and social sciences. Her work is of value to scholars working in tourism studies, cultural anthropology, museum studies, art history, Mayanist and Latin American studies, and other interdisciplinary fields.
