Recent experiences within the discipline and my fieldwork in the town of Portobelo, Panama, have left me questioning the epistemic genealogy of archaeology and the complicity between archaeological and capitalist ontologies. Observing the specter of dispossession that hangs over Portobelo as a result of Eurocentric archaeological discourses and heritage-management practices of conservation has directed me to analyze archaeological knowledge production within the coloniality of power. I contemplate how archaeology is implicated in the violence that allows capitalism to persist by examining processes of dispossession through an exploration of the relationship among archaeology, discourses of market development, and the logics of coloniality/modernity that inform them.

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殖民代理人：资本主义、市场和我的考古危机

该学科的最新经验以及我在巴拿马波托贝洛镇的实地工作让我质疑考古学的认知谱系以及考古学和资本主义本体论之间的共谋。观察由于以欧洲为中心的考古话语和保护的遗产管理实践而笼罩在波托贝洛上空的幽灵，促使我分析了权力殖民统治下的考古知识生产。我通过探索考古学、市场发展话语以及为它们提供信息的殖民/现代逻辑之间的关系来研究剥夺过程，从而思考考古学如何与允许资本主义持续存在的暴力有关。