Publicado em: . Report on the publication of the Proceedings of the First International Meeting on Archaeological Theory in South America, World Archaeological Bulletin, 12, 2000, 96-99.

REPORT

FIRST INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY IN SOUTH AMERICA

VITÓRIA, BRAZIL, 6-9TH MAY, 1998

                               The First International Meeting on Archaeological Theory in South America was held in Vitoria, at the University Campus, sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress, FAPESP (São Paulo State Science Foundation), CAPES (Brazilian Fund for Scholarly Activities), the Universities of Campinas, São Paulo and Espírito Santo, the Interdisciplinary Forum for the Advancement of Archaeology in Brazil, the Society for Brazilian Anthropology. The meeting was organized by two executive members (Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Senior South American Representative to the WAC Executive and Eduardo Góes Neves) and by the Junior South American Representative to WAC Executive, Irina Podgorny and Alejandro Haber (Catamarca, Argentina) and Norberto Luiz Guarinello (São Paulo, Brazil). The organizers faced serious funding problems, due to en economic crisis in Brazil, but were able to get together scholars from several countries (Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, United States, Great Britain, France), whose papers were discussed by more than sixty people overall. The meeting was introduced by a keynote speech by Dr Julian Thomas, WAC Secretary General, on WAC history and policies, followed by several papers discussed around such themes as “general theory”, “Latin American archaeology: theory and history”, “archaeology and ethnicity”, “landscape, heritage and museums and archaeology”, as well as case studies. The meeting was closed by a plenary meeting, when participants were able to freely exchange ideas about the meeting itself and the future of this kind of theoretical forum. The speakers emphasised the ground breaking character of this first meeting, fostering dialogue and reflexiveness about archaological practice and theory. A second meeting was proposed by the plenary session, and former senior South American Representative, Gustavo Politis and Junior South American Representative, Irina Podgorny, were charged with the task of preparing the next meeting in Argentina, in some two years time, and other scholars were also put in the organizing committe: Bernardo Fahmel Beyer (Mexico), Andrés Zarankin, Marisa Lazzari, Ximena Senatore and Félix Acuto (all of them from Buenos Aires), Eduardo Góes Neves and Cristiana Barreto (both from São Paulo). The proceedings are going to be published in Portuguese and Spanish up to the end of 1998, as a Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Supplement Volume (São Paulo, Brazil) and an English language volume is also planned, as a World Archaeological Bulletin volume.

April the 27^th, 1998

Pedro Paulo A Funari

Senior South American Representive

WAC Executive