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SUMMARY:Of Informants and Archaeologists: Knowledge and Power in 19th-Cent
 ury Explorations of the Peruvian pre-Hispanic Past - Stefanie Gänger
DTSTART:20080129T131500Z
DTEND:20080129T140000Z
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CONTACT:T.S. Thompson
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines the emerging discipline of archaeology in 
 nineteenth-century Peru. Histories of Peruvian archaeology tend to relegat
 e nineteenth-century Peruvian intellectuals\, scholars and collectors work
 ing on the pre-Hispanic past to the status of ‘informants’\, to agents
  merely providing European ‘archaeologists’ with information\, artefac
 ts and contacts. \nThis paper looks at the interactions between the emergi
 ng academic discourse\, produced by European and US-American agents\, and 
 native and Creole traditions of commemorating\, studying and preserving th
 e pre-Hispanic past. By breaking up categories such as ‘antiquarianism
 ’\, ‘dilettantism’ and ‘collecting’ as opposed to ‘archaeology
 ’ and ‘science’ it becomes clear that the boundaries are not as clea
 r as we often assume.  \nThe prestige associated with archaeology as a mod
 ern science by the time influenced who would be called an archaeologist - 
 and who an informant. This presentation sheds light on power-knowledge rel
 ations between ‘periphery’ and ‘centre’\, and their impact on hist
 orical representations of knowledge production.\n
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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