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Speaking With the Other and Not Only About the Other: Reflections for a Postcolonial Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2020

Luana Carla Martins Campos Akinruli Open the ORCID record for Luana Carla Martins Campos Akinruli [Opens in a new window]
Luana Carla Martins Campos Akinruli*
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Instituto de Inovação Social e Diversidade Cultural (INSOD), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil & Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Laboratório de Arqueologia Histórica, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (FAFICH), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil E-mail: luanacampos@insod.org
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Abstract

This text proposes to provoke an interdisciplinary reflection on alterity as challenged through investigations in archaeology. It intends to analyse the process of archaeological practice in a contemporary Latin American context. Archaeological practice configures criteria for selecting a specific cultural heritage collection, and in turn, this reflects what should be forgotten or what has the right to be remembered by the society. It also aims to contribute to the speech practice and audience of the subjects, in order to problematize the experience of research and the researcher through ethnography and discussions in the postcolonial archaeology; these could promote a point of schism where paradigms for archaeological studies may reach a breaking point.

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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , November 2020 , pp. 571 - 586
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Copyright © 2020 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

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