Introduction
Marxist archaeological approaches are now considered important in the history of world archaeological thought (Hodder & Hutson 2003; Trigger 2006; Preucel & Meskell 2007). Such approaches have significantly impacted archaeological theories since their early exposition in the twentieth century. Marxist archaeologies have been employed in many different national contexts in Latin America and have particularly influenced the different levels and structural forms of archaeology in those countries. Additionally, though no less importantly, its practice in the contemporary world is significant, as it proposes an objective knowledge of the past – in the sense that it originated from the study of social materiality – but, at the same time, it differs from other theoretical tendencies by suggesting a critique of this world with the aim of creatively transforming it.
The entire development of Marxist archaeologies cannot be comprehensively covered in an entry of this length, and as...
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Tantaleán, H. (2014). Marxist Archaeologies Development: Peruvian, Latin American, and Social Archaeology Perspectives. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1022
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