National Archaeologies and the Study of the Past II: Peru and the Southern Cone

Abstract

A synthesis of the relationship between the histories of Peruvian and Argentinian archaeologies—both national states, their sociopolitical contexts, and the congurations of diversity in both countries—is presented. Some of the milestones in both histories are the political organization of the states, the disciplinary institutionalization, the emergence of the rst generation of national archaeologists and their relationship with foreign scholars, the appearance of historical and identitarian narratives based on archaeology, and the implementation of mercantile developments related to them. Senses and territorializations of old things and places have undergone the same set of sequential changes, which are featured in this text as the passage from gods to objects and from these to goods.