“Aquilo que é tirado da terra, ás vezes pode matar”: as relações estabelecidas entre arqueologia e a comunidade de Carangola, Minas Gerais

Abstract

The present work seeks to reflect on the relationship established between Archeology and the community of Carangola, Minas Gerais. The municipality of Carangola, due to its archaeological potential, has become the target of different archaeological investigations in the last two centuries. From an analysis of the actions carried out in the municipality, it was possible to perceive not only the impacts that these works had on the local community, but also how these actions influenced the perception of these people on Archeology, the work of the archaeologist and the patrimony archaeological. For the accomplishment of this work, I tried to think of a decolonizing archeology in consonance with Public Archeology, which seeks to understand the correlation between community and archaeological heritage. In practical terms, the approach took place through ethnographic archeology, where ethnography is understood as a proposal that comes to integrate archaeological work. With the data obtained through my insertion in the community of Carangola, it was possible to show that Archeology is understood as excavation and the search for archaeological things. This traditional way of thinking and understanding the archaeological discipline is perceived in this dissertation, as a reflection of the performance of different archaeologists in the municipality. Given these data, the reflection on a decolonizing and public archeology becomes essential. The way in which the discipline has been presented and developed in the places where it passes has perpetuated a traditional scientistic thought, which ends up excluding the "other" from the narratives developed within the archaeological research and the construction of a local history