REPORT ON THE PUBLICATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY IN SOUTH AMERICA, CO-SPONSORED BY THE WORLD ARCHAELOGICAL CONGRESS
Pedro Paulo A. Funari (Senior South American Representative) pedrofunari@sti.com.br
The First International Meeting on Archaeological Theory in South America was held in Vitória, Brazil, in April 1998. It was co-sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress, the Brazilian Anthropological Association, the Forum for the Advancement of Archaeology in Brazil, the universities of Campinas and São Paulo and the São Paulo State Science Foundation. The proceedings have been published by the Archaeological and Ethnological Museum at São Paulo University.
The book, titled Anais da I Reunião de Teoria Arqueológica na América do Sul (1999, São Paulo: MAE-USP/IFCH-UNICAMP/FAPESP, US$15.00), is edited by Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Eduardo Góes Neves and Irina Podgnory. It has 402 pages, 32 authors and 29 chapters, all of them in Portuguese or Spanish.
CONTENTS
Foreword
Paula Montero
Introduction – the First International Meeting of Archaeological Theory in South America: issues and debates
Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Eduardo Góes Neves and Irina Podgorny 1-12
Theory and Method
Materiality and the Social
Julian Thomas 15-20
Why is there material culture rather than nothing? Archaeology’s forgotten question
Harkan Karlsson 21-30
The study of cultural interaction in archaeology
Erika Robrahn-González 31-34
Geosciences and their implication in archaeological method and theory
Astolfo Gomes de Melo Araújo 35-46
Discussing some scales of cultural transmission: artifact and space
José Luiz Lanata and Hector Neff 47-56
Bodies in prehistory: beyond the sex/gender split
Benjamin Alberti 57-68
The archaeology of image: theoretical and methodological aspects of the iconography of Hestia
Haiganuch Sarian 69-84
Theory and Method in the Historical Context
Network theory and the archaeology of modern history
Charles E. Orser, Jr. 87-102
The archaeology of the European-Amerindian contact: theoretical discussion and models of analysis in marginal areas
María Ximena Senatore 103-118
The archaeology of architecture: another brick on the wall
Andrés Zarankin 119-128
Caspinchango, the metaphysical rupture and the colonial question in South American archaeology: the northwestern Argentinean case
Alejandro Haber 129-142
Changing landscapes: the Inka domination in the northern Calchaquí valley, Argentina
Félix Acuto 143-157
Theory and History of Latin American Archaeology
Nationalism and archaeology: from the Old to the New World
Margarita Díaz-Andreu 161-180
Between motorcycles and rifles: the Anglo-Saxon and Hispanic radical archaeologies
Randall H. McGuire and Rodrigo Navarrete 181-200
Brazilian archaeology: a historical and comparative perspective
Cristiana Barreto 201-212
The importance of international archaeological theory for South American archaeology: the Brazilian case
Pedro Paulo A. Funari 213-220
Notes for an essay on the reception of New Archaeology in Argentina
Máximo Farro, Irina Podgorny and María Dolores Tobías 221-234
Academy and culture in Mesoamerica: two realities?
Bernd Fahmel-Beyer 235-244
Notes about the development of Classical Archaeology in Brazil: the trajectory of the MAE-USP
Elaine F. Veloso Hirata and Maria Beatriz Borba Florenzano 245-248
Archaeology and Ethnicity
Stylistic categories in the study of prehistoric art: archaeofacts or realities?
André Prous 251-262
Children activities in the production of the archaeological record of hunter-gatherers
Gustavo G. Politis 263-284
Rethinking the labels and the history of the Brazilian southern Jê from and interdisciplinary interpretation
Francisco Silva Noelli 285-302
Ethnicity and ceramic traditions: some thoughts on the ancient Bororo villages from Mato Grosso
Irmhild Wüst 303-318
Archaeology, indigenous history and the ethnographic record: examples from the Upper Rio Negro
Eduardo Góes Neves 319-330
Heritage and Material Culture
The importance of museum processes for heritage preservation
Maria Cristina Oliveria Bruno 333-338
Museum, education and archaeology: prospections between practice and theory
Elizabete Tamanini 339-346
Archaeological survey in environmental planning
Solange Bezerra Caldarelli 347-370
Travelling objects and spatial images: exchange relations and the production of social space
Marisa Lazzari 371-386
Archaeology as political action: the Colorado Coal War Project
Randall H. McGuire 387-397