Arqueologías Vitales

The texts in this book are autobiographical. Unlike so many academic writings, they do not hide, but rather make visible, everything that happens between fieldwork and writing, that space so productive but so contentious that it is usually eliminated, denied, altered. The authors speak in the first person, without hiding behind anything and anyone, without resorting to the hackneyed formulas so repeated in academia that modernity made: an impersonal voice, without position, that speaks from nowhere but pretends to know and see everything. Archaeologists learn to do and write (not write) in a way and they never change it. They learn the canon of what can be said and what cannot be said. Correctly academic. Instead, these first-person voices decentralize the canon because they speak of what should not be spoken from where it cannot be said. The authors write about their transformation as archaeologists through their practice which, usually but not always, involved their relationship with other(s).

en español

Los textos de este libro son auto-biográficos. A diferencia de tantos escritos académicos no ocultan, sino más bien visibilizan todo lo que sucede entre el trabajo de campo y la escritura, ese espacio tan productivo pero tan contencioso que usualmente se elimina, se niega, se alteriza.