Public Archaeology in South America

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract In this chapter, we examine the nature of public archaeology in South America and its status as a subfield in archaeology. Although it is accepted by some authors as a resonance of Latin-American social archaeology, public archaeology has a trajectory marked by substantial connections to the history of development policies by nation-states and transglobal economic agents. In some countries, it has become synonymous with heritage education, a requirement of archaeological licensing projects, while in others it is congruent with public heritage policy. As a result of critical inquiry in archaeology, the relationships between archaeologists and diverse human collectives claiming a stake in their past—Indigenous, campesino and raizal among others—have shifted over time, however. Advances arising from these debates have revitalized public archaeology by placing less emphasis on its linkages to top-down policy, cultural resource management, and research dissemination and more on the coproduction of knowledge and archaeology’s part in the reproduction of asymmetries power. Ongoing changes provide venues for shaping public archaeology as a field of knowledge grounded in the South American experience.
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Authors Marcia Bezerra, Alexander Herrera Wassilowsky
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391367.013.84
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391367.013.84
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