Rethinking Latin American Archaeology: "Affective Alliances" and Traditional Community-Engagement

Author(s)

Sallum, Marianne

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: PAPERS FROM THE INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY; v. 34, n. 1, p. 43-pg., 2023-05-09.

Abstract

The integration of archaeology and community engagement in Latin America remains a new challenge, largely because the multiple social configurations, practices, and theories intrinsic in each need to be considered instead of creating a unified pattern. In Brazil, there are more than 16,000 communities of Indigenous, Maroon, and traditional membership, all with many demands that test the collaborative capacity of researchers. Seeking a basis for action within a decolonization perspective, this paper provides the theoretical background that outlines some benefits of an affective alliance and collaboration based on the equivalence of knowledge and practices from different epistemes. This paper also offers regional cases of the persistence of agroforestry communities that require the re-evaluation of academic and bureaucratic erasure. On one side, the Tupi Guarani of Peruibe that manifest interest in recovering the language and practices of their ancestors. On the other side, the persistence of social and cultural practices that started in Indigenous contexts but extended beyond them, with people from different places and times joining the communities of women potters. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 19/17868-0 - Archaeology of colonialism and persistence: a comparative approach of native practices between São Paulo (Brazil) and New England (United States)
• Grantee: Marianne Sallum
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• FAPESP's process: 19/18664-9 - The human occupation of southeast South America through the Holocene: an interdisciplinary, multiescalar and diacronic approach
• Grantee: Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• FAPESP's process: 21/09619-0 - Archaeology of colonialism and persistence: a comparative approach of native practices between São Paulo (Brazil) and New England (United States)
• Grantee: Marianne Sallum
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor