Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology at Aldeia Lalima and Terra Indígena Kayabi: reflections on Community Archaeology and Archaeological Heritage Management

Abstract

I coordinated a research (2007 – 2009) about historical and cultural trajectories of the indigenous populations who inhabit and inhabited the Aldeia Lalima-MS and Terra Indígena Kayabi –MT/PA. The goal of this research was to identify the processes of continuity, change and rupture in the indigenous trajectories, as well as, the dialectics between past and present, subject and object, and to understand the way these indigenous populations interpret their past and other historical and cultural processes occurred in these territories. This article presents some aspects for this research, analysing the procedures and results from a public and community archaeological perspective, reflecting about heritage management in these territories.