A Latin American choreography: entanglements of solidarity and collaboration for a forensic archaeology

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This is an abstract from the "Weaving Epistemes: Community-Based Research in Latin America" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

A Latin American choreography: entanglements of solidarity and collaboration for a forensic archaeology

Latin America was and still is one of the most prominent areas for the development of forensic archaeology and anthropology. It is a common sense between researchers of the field that this latin america perspective started with the Argentinian forensic team in the 80's and gradually new teams with more or less the same approach were created in different countries, unfortunately due to the context experienced throughout the 20th century of dictatorships, internal conflicts and generalised violence. This paper explores Latin American choreography in the weaving of an epistemology aimed directly at the communities affected by this violence.

This Latin American know-how has implied, and still implies, ways of understanding violence, in a scientific approach where communities are the centre and subject-researchers-activists in the research. Focusing on the development of this field in some Latin American countries, I propose to identify this theoretical-methodological entanglement that has become involved in different countries with diverse and common histories that generates a Latin American identity of acting against violence and pursuing justice.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Weaving Epistemes: Community-Based Research in Latin America   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39580.0