Rethinking Latin American Archaeology: "Affective Alliances" and Traditional Community-Engagement

The integration of archaeology and community engagement in Latin America remains a new challenge, largely because the multiple social configurations, practices, theories intrinsic each need to be considered instead creating a  unified pattern. In Brazil, there are more than 16,000 communities Indigenous, Maroon, traditional membership, all with many demands that test collaborative capacity researchers. Seeking basis for action within decolonization perspective, this paper provides theoretical background outlines some benefits an affective alliance collaboration based on equivalence knowledge practices from different epistemes. This also offers regional cases persistence agroforestry require re-evaluation academic bureaucratic erasure. On one side, Tupi Guarani Peruíbe manifest interest recovering language their ancestors. other cultural started Indigenous contexts but extended beyond them, people places times joining women potters.