Archaeology, Food Sovereignty, and Networks of Solidarity among Indigenous, Afrodescendens Communities, and Beyond in Brazil and Ecuador

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes in Dispute, Territorial Futures: Restitution and Reparation in the Face of Enclosure, Industrialization, and Extractivism", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This paper reflects on the interactions and solidarity networks among Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities to maintain self-sustainability and food sovereignty against capitalist and colonialist policies of cultural homogenization. It highlights the aspects of food sovereignty and forest cultivation that persist in the present, initially following Indigenous practices and, later, African and Afro-descendant practices. It will present a comparative analysis of such practices in food consumption, especially vegetables, among the communities of the Atlantic Forest in São Paulo (Brazil) and the Afro-Ecuadorian ancestral territories of the Chota Valley and Esmeraldas (Ecuador).

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025   •
• Landscapes in Dispute, Territorial Futures: Restitution and Reparation in the Face of Enclosure, Industrialization, and Extractivism

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