Comunitários e arqueólogos: uma etnografia do fazer arqueológico nas comunidades do Lago do Limão (Iranduba) e do Rio Pardo (Presidente Figueiredo), Amazonas

Abstract

For decades the Amazon region has been the scene of archaeological research. Since then this scenario and dialogue between anthropology and archaeology this ethnography was constructed through dense description. The research was multisited between two archaeology projects carried out in Amazonas State: PAC and COMIDA. The places choose two communities, the Lago do Limão in Iranduba and Rio Pardo in Presidente Figueiredo. The PAC has lasted almost two decades and COMIDA is under way since 2012. The objective was to understand the human dynamics at the present, the relations between community and researchers directed to archaeological research. The ethnography intended to make the subjects visible giving voices to them. The research in Lago do Limão was conceived as a laboratory of description and analysis of the relations between community members and researchers, and as a comparative basis for what has been developed in Rio Pardo, we realize anthropological research an ethnographic production based on the knowledge acquired through observation, description and analysis in search of a translation about the other. The hypotheses that permeated screen ethnography is that a posture of scientific authority adopted with the community could interfere in the extraversion of the research objectives in archeology; which makes it difficult to understand the presence and work of the archaeologist by the community is the noise in the communication between them. Predominating pre-judgment recurring aimed the service of "community" heritage. Anthropology can contribute positively to the establishment of relationships between research subjects and community, it usually stigmatized as an ethnocentric or colonizing relationship.