These things are alive: relationships between material culture, communities, and archaeological legislation

  • Lucio Menezes Departamento de Antropología y Arqueología Universidad Federal de Pelotas. Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil Investigador del CNPq
Keywords: Archaeological legislation, communities, material culture, contract archaeology.

Abstract

This paper deals with the relationship between different sets of archaeological legislation, material culture and communities. First it presents a historical sketch of the heritage legislation in the West and its contemporary uses. Secondly, it shows how alternative archaeological agencies, such as community archaeology, deal with these problems. The discussion is especially relevant in Brazil, where contract archaeology is presently overwhelming, and the issue is raised in the last part of the paper.

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Menezes L. (2015). These things are alive: relationships between material culture, communities, and archaeological legislation. Complutum, 26(1), 37-48. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CMPL.2015.v26.n1.49339
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