Applied Archaeology and Heritage: memory and utopia

Abstract

We present a reflection that contributes to the full integration of archeology in a strategy of study, management and comprehensive socialization of heritage. This field is outlined by a conceptual approach to the concepts of record and heritage. Arises from the dialectic, we need to theorize about the actual capacity of a critical action in the field of heritage. This is proposed as an unavoidable steps necessary to generate a theoretical strategy that encourages collaboration between different sectors within the discipline, the close cooperation between the various sciences that are designed to study heritage, cooperation with other disciplines working with heritage complementary fields (planning, environment) and the extension of the strategy for the incorporation of other disciplines who take the heritage as a means for its exercise. Finally, we deconstruct the concept of heritage value in its different dimensions, an advocate for an action which has as its utopian horizon full socialization of science heritage (including archeology) and of the same heritage, understood in terms of a enhancement of their relevance and transforming power of social reality.