LOS ESTUDIOS DE HERENCIA CULTURAL COMO UNA ALTERNATIVA A LA ARQUEOLOGÍA CIENTÍFICA O A LA PATRIMONIALIZACIÓN DE LOS DIOSES: DEL PARADIGMA DE LA RUPTURA AL DE LA CONTINUIDAD

Abstract

In the last two decades several archaeologist have discussed about the problematic relationship between archaeology and the construction of imagined communities. In these reflections the evaluations has suggested that archaeology has been functional to a nationalistic project that put alterity in other temporal rather than the present. For this reason archaeology was legitimized as a discipline which analytical core was the past (discontinuity). the weight of that image inside disciplinary imaginary, more and more local communities are claiming, not just a more active role in the representation of the past, but also more inside the spaces where archaeological practice is taking place. All these claims have been, in many cases, legitimized by taking attention in how colonialism impelled local communities to pull apart traditional practices held inside sacred spaces and objects (continuity). In the middle of this scenery, has emerged a new paradigm that t want to research what happened in the past, but the ways through people learned to forget traditional practices (main object of colonialism). In this paper I want to talk about this framework where is possible to think about the effects of colonialism; I call this framework: cultural heritage studies.