Remembering Victoria Castro Rojas. Research practice and the formation of an anthropological perspective

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Abstract

This text reflects and highlights fundamental contributions of the researcher Victoria Castro Rojas. We refer to the vision of the practice of archaeology that she promoted throughout her career, as a discipline not so much of the past, but anchored in the present and in permanent connection with local communities and the territories where she developed her work. This resulted in a disciplinary practice that resisted the hegemonic process of distancing between archaeology and anthropology, consolidating a line of research that articulated diverse disciplines and opened new and interstitial spaces for research and the training of dozens of professionals.

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Victoria Castro Rojas, archaeology, anthropology, traditional knowledge, continuities