Landscapes of Black and Indigenous Legacies of Resistance, Human Rights, and Archaeology in Latin America
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2025
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Landscapes of Black and Indigenous Legacies of Resistance, Human Rights, and Archaeology in Latin America," at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
From a Latin American social archaeology perspective, this symposium states how researchers engage ethically with the epistemologies, ontologies, and heritage of African and Indigenous peoples in the context of the deep roots of structural racism and other forms of violence. We are still facing the destruction of our heritage and the silencing of our historical memories and tangible and intangible legacies of our communities. The long-lasting effects of colonial oppression have been resisted, including different forms of marronage, and palenquerismo. These ancestral actions are tied to vindicate life, existence, and other ways of doing, and thinking. These actions are part of our own ontologies that allow us to redefine heritage “inside home”. In the context of the defense of our human and collective rights and self-determination, we use the academic spaces to reflect on the historical struggles of peoples and nationalities through our own actors' voices.
Other Keywords
Pottery Production •
Colombia •
heritage •
Human Rights •
Multiculturalism •
Ancestral Afroecuadorian Territory •
Afro-epistemology •
Afro-Indigenous Heritage •
Afro-Ecuadorian archaeology •
Maroon cemetery
Geographic Keywords
Latin America •
Ecuador, Ancestral Afroecuadorian Territory •
Northern Colombia
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Contributions From the Afro-Choteño Ancestral Territory to Rethink Archaeology, Heritage and Safeguarding (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes of Black and Indigenous Legacies of Resistance, Human Rights, and Archaeology in Latin America", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This article, and therefore presentation, proposes a critical analysis to reconfigure and redefine an “Afro-Ecuadorian archaeology.” This epistemological rupture is reasonable and necessary to expand the narratives that transit the disciplines. We respond to the maroon...
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Cultural Heritage, Human Rights, and Social Movements: An Insight into three Latin-American Archaeological Contexts (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes of Black and Indigenous Legacies of Resistance, Human Rights, and Archaeology in Latin America", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. International standards regulate cultural heritage, focusing historically on sites aligned with nation-building ideologies and systematically erasing other histories. Material heritage policies are shaped by constitutional amendments and policy shifts towards...
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Shaping time by hand: Ceramic production in an Afro-descendant community in Northern Colombia. (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes of Black and Indigenous Legacies of Resistance, Human Rights, and Archaeology in Latin America", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the courtyard of her house, Juana began to knead the sand and red mud she had collected earlier from the Palenque stream. It had been a long time since she had made "clay pots", but she insisted that she had not forgotten it. It was a craft she had learned from her...
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Two Decades of Struggle and Revitalization of the Pantheon of Afro-descendant Ancestors "Garden of Memory Martina Carrillo" (Valle del Chota, Carchi-Ecuador) (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes of Black and Indigenous Legacies of Resistance, Human Rights, and Archaeology in Latin America", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The heritage protection of Maroon sacred geographies, including cemeteries in the Americas has revealed a series of gaps in national and regional legislation, responding to systemic violence displaying different forms of anti-blackness discourses and silences within the...