Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: What Is to Be Done? Elements for a Discussion -- Entrance (Exit): Indigenous Archaeology and Peasant Power -- Part I: When Material Culture Matters: The State, Indigenous Peoples, and Archaeologists -- 1. Ruins and the State: Archaeology of a Mexican Symbiosis -- 2. Native Histories and Archaeologists -- 3. Indigenous Archaeology … in Peru? -- 4. Turning Tables in Search of Dialogue: The Making of Indiscrete Spaces in Latin American Contexts -- 5. The Indigenous Other in Atacameño Archaeology -- 6. Building Dialogues across Contradicting Interests in Northern Chile: An Experience and Some Preliminary Thoughts -- 7. Reflections on Chilean Legislation and the Indigenous Archaeological Heritage: An Archaeologist's Viewpoint -- 8. Archaeology and Indigenous Communities: A Comparative Study of Argentinean and Brazilian Legislation -- 9. Indigenous Knowledge and Archaeological Science: The Challenges of Public Archaeology in the Área Indígena do Uaçá -- Part II: Indigenous Archaeology, Archaeology forIndigenous Peoples -- 10. Vindications of a Mesoamerican Marginal Group: The Otomíes from the Valley of the Mezquital -- 11. Indigenous Archaeologies or the Fight against the Third Transformation of Faust: Reflections from Colombian and Argentinean Communities -- 12. Archaeology and Identity: The Case of the Guambianos -- 13. Indigenous Representations of the Archaeological Record: Spectral Reflections of Postmodernity in Ecuador -- 14. Archaeological Ruins: Spaces of the Past, Expectations of the Future. Tourism and Heritage in Nor Lípez -- 15. The Message of the Kuviche in the Llew-Llew -- 16. Archaeology and Caboclo Populations in Amazonia: Regimes of Historical Transformation and the Dilemmas of Self-Representation -- 17. Archaeology and Paresi Cultural Heritage.

Exit (Entrance): Bolivian Archaeology: Another Link in the Chain of Coloniality? -- Appendix: Declaration of Río Cuarto -- Index -- About the Authors.