Agents of Coloniality: Capitalism, the Market, and My Crisis with Archaeology

• Marguerite L. De Loney ^[1]
  1. [1] Department of Anthropology, Main Quad, Building 50, 450 Serra Mall,Stanford University,Stanford,U.S.A.
• Localización: Historical Archaeology, ISSN 0440-9213, Vol. 53, Nº. 3-4, 2019, págs. 686-701
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Recent experiences within the discipline and my fieldwork in the town of Portobelo, Panama, have left me questioning the epistemic genealogy of archaeology and the complicity between archaeological and capitalist ontologies. Observing the specter of dispossession that hangs over Portobelo as a result of Eurocentric archaeological discourses and heritage-management practices of conservation has directed me to analyze archaeological knowledge production within the coloniality of power. I contemplate how archaeology is implicated in the violence that allows capitalism to persist by examining processes of dispossession through an exploration of the relationship among archaeology, discourses of market development, and the logics of coloniality/modernity that inform them.