Landscapes of Maroon Societies in Ecuador

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Afro-Latin American Landscapes" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This presentation debates the permeability of eighteenth-century landscapes of colonialism and slavery in the Andean region, based on the ethnohistorical and ethnographic research of *cimarronaje and *palenques (maroonage) heritage in the Afro-Ecuadorian Ancestral Territory (between the Chota-Mira Valley and the province of Esmeraldas, Ecuador). A legacy of epistemologies generated within the *territorio cimarron and *palenquero (maroon landscapes) demonstrates a continuous and dynamic process of national sovereignty defense over their ongoing created and revitalized ecologies. In the context of a new stage of the project “Collaborative Archaeology in the Afro-Ecuadorian Ancestral Territory of the Chota-Mira Valley,” this paper explores the archaeological reconstruction of historical ecologies of Afro-Ecuadorian *cimarronaje.

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• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Afro-Latin American Landscapes

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Abstract Id(s): 33450