Foreign Archaeology As An Extractive Practice

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies and Latin American Voices: Dialogues Transcending Colonizing Archaeologies", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The praxis of archaeology performed by foreign projects in developing countries such as Peru presents a clear extractive nature: data is extracted as raw material and exported to funding institutions almost always located in the global north. This data is then analyzed and published in English in specialized journals. This extractive practice is widely extended in Peruvian archaeology. After approximately 100 years of foreign presence, this type of projects have had minimal impact in the lives of local communities and stakeholders.

In order to analyze and deconstruct this colonizing praxis, this work will contrast the development of a local archaeology in the north coast, funded by the Peruvian government, and a foreign archaeology in the south coast, were a series of foreign led and funded projects have developed for decades.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Global Archaeologies and Latin American Voices: Dialogues Transcending Colonizing Archaeologies   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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