Archeologia e mondo contemporaneo: quattro opinioni su La materialidad de la historia

Abstract

Changes in the contemporary world are questioning the meaning of archaeology, forcing archaeologists to face the economic crisis, the perception that the common people have of the past and the request by politicians to produce socially useful knowledge. The adaptation strategies that scholars are developing are not without risks because if the conversion of archaeology into a social resource can lead to challenging perspectives it also creates problems. This contribution, edited by Umberto Moscatelli, contains four different points of view of the book La Materialidad de la historia, focusing on the role of Archaeology at the beginning of the XXI century.