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The Toconce Group in its early years (1977-1984) Personal memories and reflections

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No. 50 (2024): Second Semester
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1472.2024.76478

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Research testimony of the early years of the Toconce Group, a group of university origin formed in the mid-seventies to investigate the pre-Hispanic past of the upper basin of the Salado River, the main tributary of the Loa River. Throughout its history, the group created an academic and research identity focused on archaeology, but broadly multidisciplinary, and carried out its activities in close connection with indigenous communities. Its members contributed to Central-Southern Andean studies with research that challenged the authoritarian and exclusive paradigms of the discipline at the time, practicing an archaeology that was both historical and anthropological. In the life cycle of the group, a stage of Gestation can be recognized that is prior to its founding, a stage of Creation and another of Growth, which corresponds to the eight “early years”, but which probably extended beyond this period. The Consolidation stage would have begun at the end of the 1980s.

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academic groups, Atacama Desert, archaeology and ethnography, indigenous communities, symbolic archaeology, archaeology in times of dictatorship, research testimony

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Berenguer, J. (2024). The Toconce Group in its early years (1977-1984) Personal memories and reflections. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (50). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1472.2024.76478
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Revista Chilena de Antropología
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Universidad de Chile
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