A 10-Year Evaluation of El Guarco Project and Its Impacts in the Local Interactions at Cerro Azul, Peru

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Politics of Heritage Values: How Archaeologists Deal with Place, Social Memories, Identities, and Socioeconomics" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In the year 2014 as part of the Qhapaq Ñan project, a long-term intervention at the site of El Guarco in the coastal town of Cerro Azul was started. The project was thought from the beginning within the framework of collaborative archaeology and the relation with local people. This paper asks after 10 years of intervention in the site and permanent presences of the national project in the locality for the possible impacts—positive and negative—and how this project transformed or not the relation of the town with their heritage. We especially ask how the different actors like the state program, the local municipality, the association of fisherman, and others segments of Cerro Azul civil society adapt, transform, and create discourses around the Inka site, looking to their own necessities? We propose that although sometimes contradictory, these discourses were able to find an equilibrium that inspire a rebirth of the community’s relationship with the archaeological site. While we believe that this relationship is positive, they are still in an embryonic stage, in part because the majority of initiatives are still top-down proposals with moderate local people participation given room for development of better co-creation initiative of heritage management.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Politics of Heritage Values: How Archaeologists Deal with Place, Social Memories, Identities, and Socioeconomics

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Abstract Id(s): 39058.0