The affective archaeologies of the undergraduate production of Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco: historical developments and theoretical interfaces in the construction of Archaeology in the Southeast and Southwestern of Piauí

Abstract

In this article, we analyze the construction of archeology in the Southeast and Southwest of Piauí, in order to explain the conditions and developments that have configured a set of archaeological practices based on the interface between science and affection. These are ‘affective archeologies’, which can be identified in socially engaged processes of knowledge production, catalyzed in the dynamic contexts of interactions constituted in the semiarid. To achieve this purpose, we have considered from the beginning of the archaeological works that culminated in the creation of Parque Nacional Serra da Capivara, in the 1970s, until the most recent events, represented by the insertion of archeology in the expansion of higher education, with the creation of Archeology and Heritage Preservation graduate course, at the Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco (UNIVASF), in São Raimundo Nonato, starting in 2004. In this exercise, we verified some overlapping of scenarios and, at the same time, we explained the transversalities with theoretical, methodological, and political positions projected from the Latin American reality.

Keywords
Teaching Archeology; History of Archeology; Affection; Piauí