Archaeologies of Contemporary and Political Global Settings

Dr. Dante Angelo - I am a Bolivian archaeologist (Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, 1999), and I have conducted research about prehispanic occupations in the southwestern part of the country. There, I explored mostly aspects related to pre-Inca settlements and their social structures, which was later published locally. Later, I pursued graduate studies and obtained my Master's degree in socio-cultural anthropology (2003) and a PhD in anthropology (2010), both in Stanford University. Throughout my academic formation, I have been interested in the political aspects of the archaeological practice. My doctoral research about the material and political aspects involved in the production of heritage involved hybrid methodologies of analysis that I continue to use and improve in later efforts. In 2018, a piece of my work in which such methodological and theoretical aspects are displayed was recognized with the Gordon Willey Prize, awarded by the American Anthropological Association. I have also been involved incollaborative work along colleagues from US universities to explore different aspects (key among these, the political ones) about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ways archaeology can tackle them. Also, as part of these collaborative efforts, I have recently co-organized with Andrés Zarankin, the co-editor of this proposed volume, the session entitled "Archaeologies of Contemporary and Political Global Settings", within the global conference of the World Archaeological Congress (Prague, 2022), which was very well received by the archaeological community. My partnership with Andrés, a good friend of mine and one of the most renowned Latin American archaeologists, provides an opportunity to bring to the spotlight some of the tensions and, hopefully, alternatives to deal with the challenges that current contexts pose to the discipline and demand a more engaged practice from it.

• 1 Pressing Matters: Archaeology Amid a Changing World (Dante Angelo and Andrés Zarankin).- 2 Retrieving Lived Experience of Institutional Abuse: Material, Memory and Social Justice (Laura McAtackney).- 3 Heritage cosmopolitics: ontological conflicts and development in-terventions in the contemporary past of the southcentral Andes (Francesco Orlandi).- 4 ‘Britons demand justice’: Historical Archaeology of the Response to the Peterloo Massacre (Caitlin Kitchener).- 5 North American Conjure and Hoodoo and Archaeology (Mark Leone).- 6 When digging is no longer enough: Uses of archaeology by in-digenous social movements in Colombia (Wilhelm Londoño Díaz).- 7 Towards an archaeology of ambiguous loss: Negotiating vio-lence, counter-memory, heritage, and erasure in an occupied bor-der zone (Gabriella Soto).- 8 Political Action in Frozen Lands: Insights from Antarctic Ar-chaeology (Melisa Salerno0.- 9 Archaeologies of the Contemporary in Brazil: Study Cases on Slavery and Dictatorship (Lucio Menezes Ferreira, Andres Zarankin, and Pedro Fermin Maguire).- 10 Catastrophic memories: Wading through politics of memory, monumentalization, and nationalism (Dante Angelo and Néstor Rojas).- 11 The Slow Decline of the Working Class and the Emergence of an Illegal Dumping Place in Marhult (Sweden), a Garbological Study (Leila Papoli and Omran Garazhian).- 12 Archeo-shame. A Port Housing Archaeology of La Boca del Riachuelo, Buenos Aires (Marcelo Weissel).- 13 Seeking Authenticity in the Neoliberal City: The Case Study of the Terminal House in Jaffa, Israel (Chemi Shiff).- 14 Archaeology and social movements. The social outburst in Te-muco, Chile (Henrik B. Lindskoug).- 15 Epilogue. What Can Archaeology Do? (Benjamin Alberti).