The Transformation of Long-Term Anthropological and Archaeological Engagements in Communities: Cases from Southern Manabi Province

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Working with the Community in Ecuador" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

For the past 20 years, we have conducted research along the Ecuadorian coast in the province of Manabí. Over time, our work has evolved from that of strictly scientific issues to the incorporation of local community-based participatory research models. As other anthropologists have discovered, a continuous commitment with a research site leads to new and deeper forms of anthropological engagement with communities. These new modes of collaboration are simultaneously fruitful, practical, and precarious. In this paper, we present an evaluation of our work within the communities of southern Manabí Province and the consequent transformation of our relations with the inhabitants of the sector.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Working with the Community in Ecuador   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24892