Introduction: the uses of heritage and the post-colonial condition in Latin America / Olaf Kaltmeier & Mario Rufer -- On the advantage and disadvantage of heritage for Latin America: heritage politics and nostalgia between coloniality and indigeneity / Olaf Kaltmeier -- ¡Mexicanos al grito de guerra! How the himno nacional became part of Mexico's heritage / Sarah Corona Berkin -- Making heritage: the materialization of the state and the expediency of music: the case of cuarteto característico in Córdoba, Argentina / Gustavo Blazquez -- Is Spanish our language? Alfonso Reyes and the policies of language in post-revolutionary Mexico / María del Carmen de la Peza -- Cultural management and neoliberal governamentality: the participation of Perú in the exhibition Inca: kings of the Andes / Gisela Cánepa -- Commemorate, consecrate, demolish: thoughts about the Mexican Museum of Anthropology and its history / Frida Gorbach -- Going back to the past or coming back from the past? Governmental policies and uses of the past in a Ranquel community in San Luis, Argentina / María Celina Chocobare -- Unearthing patrimonio: treasure and collectivity in San Miguel Coatlinchan / Sandra Rozental -- Processes of heritagization of indigenous cultural manifestations: lines of debate, analytic axes, and methodological approaches / Carolina Crespo -- The ambivalence of tradition: heritage, time, and violence in postcolonial contexts / Mario Rufer