ABSTRACT
This chapter takes up storytelling conventions adopted from the community of people we worked with, to take the reader on a tour of the village and to lay out some of the main points in its history. It is also serves to highlight the history of archaeological involvement in the area, and the context within which archaeology and heritage are understood locally. Storytelling as a performative activity constitutes the connecting principle of heritage-making in ouffigurer case and structures our approach to setting up collaborative knowledge-making processes in the field. This is our offering of a story that is based on true events, but at the same time reordered and valuated through successive and multivocal retellings. It contains the main assumptions and empirical conclusions of ethnographic work as we would choose to tell it to our interlocutors, adapted here for a wider readership.
