Modes of Cultural Production of the ?Mega-mining Reality? in the San Juan Province: The Role of Contract Archaeology

IVANA CARINA JOFRÉ

Online Journal in Public Archaeology

JAS Arqueologia

Lugar: Madrid; Año: 2014 vol. 4 p. 15 - 23

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The present study focuses on the relationship between cultural heritage and mega-mining1, and aims to show how contract archaeology?linked to mining projects through the patrimonialisation of indigenous places of memory?is part of a complex network of hegemonic actors that contribute towards the institutionalisation and naturalisation of a neo-extractivist developmental model.