Abstract

ACCINELLI, Aldo. Archaeological discourses and their consequences: an approximation through the Peruvian case. Desde el Sur [online]. 2021, vol.13, n.3, e0027.  Epub Dec 31, 2021. ISSN 2076-2674.  http://dx.doi.org/10.21142/des-1303-2021-0027.

In the present article it will be discussed how archaeology has been shaping the discourses about human past, going from ideas that simplified cultural development to allowing an understanding of the diversity of cultural processes in the world. However, the archaeological discourses that had their origins in colonialism and racism still perdure today. In Peru, these discourses have as its most important representative the nationalist idea of a "mother civilization" or "mother culture", which has as a consequence the overvaluation of the monumentality of archaeological sites. In this way, it will be explained how notions surged from coloniality create value scales about archaeological sites and the past in itself. Finally, it will be seen how these ideas are still perpetuated by the Peruvian state through school textbooks.

Keywords : Archaeology; nationalism; state; colonialism; education.

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