Arqueologia no território do sacrifício

Abstract

Within post-colonial territorial entanglements, various groups of agents come together to tense the conflict around the relationships of meaning with the territory. When the conflict scenario is tense, the various sets of agents are aligned according to their basic epistemic complicities. The locality (or local community), on the one hand, and science, the State and capital on the other, unfold their respective space-times in territorial entanglements. Like any territory, Ancasti, in the homonymous department in the province of Catamarca, Argentine Republic, develops its own territorial plot; in particular, it stands out for the complexity of each kind of agents, and for the way in which the forces are reordered in a first moment of tension. Both the long-standing presence of the archaeological intervention and the redefinition as sacrificial territory in the context of the lithium boom provides a specific texture, which we describe in this text.