Undisciplined Archaeology, intersubjective encounters and multiple relationalities

Abstract

This essay, written from conversations between the archaeologist Alejandro Haber —researcher and professor at the Universidad de Catamarca— and the social anthropologists Mariela Eva Rodríguez and Ana Cecilia Gerrard —editors of the special dossier for the seventy years of journal Runa. Archivo para las Ciencias del Hombre—, constitutes an opportunity to reflect collectively. The authors cover various themes, including  the potential of the undisciplined Archaeology to reverse the epistemic violence that drives the theorizations, methodologies and practices of the colonial science; the distances between Archaeology and Social Anthropology; the challenges of allowing oneself to be interpellated during the intersubjective encounters of the ethnographic experience; the implications of doing, thinking and feeling from the margins; the subjectivation processes that take place through reflexivity, textualization and reading; and the consequences our ethical and political positions have on the struggles of subalternized subjects and groups.