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This paper considers the institutionalization of the archaeological discipline in the context of modern Western science and puts forward the idea of archeology as politics. The analysis takes place from a South American perspective and takes a different stance from the widespread treatment on the subject which is based on the presumption of a division between science and politics as exclusive domains (although recognizing some influence of the latter). That is, it is not the intention of this entry to differentiate between archeology and politics as separate spheres, which would imply the acceptance of the possibility of being able to manage at will the political side of archaeological practice in time and space.