Abstract
SUMMARY In this article I interrogate the conjunction of archaeological discovery, narrational packaging of the past for tourism, and discourses of identity, using as my example spectacular burials discovered on the north coast of Peru. I argue that the ancient elite bodies are being manipulated and interpreted within a framework of international cultural heritage tourism, nationalist ideology, and regional assertions against the centralized government in Lima. The archaeological discoveries are being used in their local context to promote economic development around tourism and social well-being around identity on the basis of a newly valorized archaeological past.
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