Arqueologia como capitalismo do desastre
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Issue Date
2015
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Hutchings, Richard
La Salle, Marina
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Abstract
Archaeology is a form of disaster capitalism, characterized by specialist
managers whose function is the "clearance" of Indigenous heritage from the
landscape, making way for economic development. When presented with this
critique, archaeologists respond strongly and emotionally, denying and
defending the commercial archaeology industry. Their anger emanates from
and revolves around the assertion that archaeologists are not just complicit in but integral to the destruction of the very heritage they claim to protect. In what
we believe is an act of philosophical and economic self-preservation,
mainstream archaeologists actively "forget" the relationship between
archaeology, violence and the global heritage crisis. Securely defended by its
practitioners, archaeology therefore remains an imperial force grounded in the
ideology of growth, development and progress.