Social Movements an Archaeology

IVANA CARINA JOFRÉ

Encyclopedi Global of Archaeology

Springer

Lugar: Nwe York- London; Año: 2014; p. 6753 - 6761

With the aim of presenting a contemporary and yet generalized definition of Archaeology in relation to Social Movements, it is necessary to situate both as two fields with origins that are dissimilar, but not necessarily opposing, and increasing in mutual collaboration. The first field, Archaeology, is found to be historically bound to the production of academic knowledge around the discipline of the past, usually in agreement with the political interests of the Administrators of the colonies and the modern Nation States. The second, Social Movements, is linked to emerging collective action and is about eminently practical orientations aimed at broadening the areas of participation in decisions of collective interest. And as such, it primarily contains and promotes, over all, a political meaning.