The Professionalization of Archaeology and the Study of the Past: Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract This chapter aims to evaluate the historical and political aspects that allowed the professionalization of archaeology in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. The chapter discusses how the legacies of colonization, the growing Creole populations, and the romanticized view of past Indigenous people influenced the development of archaeology and its later professionalization. Based on this, the chapter reflects on the future of archaeology in these countries and in a broader Latin American frame. In particular, we argue that the future of professional archaeology in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela necessarily involves the development of multivocal, inclusive, and Indigenous archaeologies, where the knowledge of the “other” is not exoticized but is considered in a symmetrical way within relational approaches.
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Authors Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, José Roberto Pellini
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391367.013.3
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391367.013.3
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