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The uses of archaeology. A plea for diversity

Professor Dawdys keynote speech addresses some of the main challenges of the discipline in the 21st century. Archaeology should not be self-serving, and it can even become dangerous, a possible consequence of a quest for its usefulness. A possible solution would be to focus efforts on environmental archaeology. Looking for ancient sustainable agricultural practices, for example, in order to better inform contemporary human adaptations, would be a path to follow. According to Dawdy, this useful, futurist archaeology finds a public ready for such an endeavour.

Leituras Acerca das Políticas Patrimoniais no Litoral Norte de São Paulo, Brasil

O presente texto almeja discutir as politicas patrimoniais no Brasil, tendo como exemplos o estudo de caso do Litoral Norte do Estado de Sao Paulo. A proposta e compreender o patrimonio como espaco de poder e, neste sentido, apreender quais as categorias patrimoniais tem sido usadas para representar as relacoes entre os seres humanos e a natureza e suas consequencias.