Patricia Ayala Editor

Cristobal Gnecco is professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Cauca (Colombia), where he works about the political economy of archaeology and the discourses on the ethnic other. He has published "Modernity and politics in Colombian archaeology" (In Handbook of South American archaeology, edited by Helaine Silverman and William Isbell, Springer, New York, 2008), "A three-takes tale: the meaning of WAC for a pluralistic archaeology" (Archaeologies 2, 2006), and co-edited, with Carl Langebaek, Contra la tirania tipologica en arqueologia. Una vision desde Sudamerica (Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, 2006). Patricia Ayala coodinates the office of relationships with the Atacameno community at the Archaeological Research Institute and Museum Gustavo Le Paige of the Universidad Catolica del Norte (Chile). As an archaeologist she has studied the Formative and Late Intermediate periods of Atacameno prehistory as well as social interaction between the Circumpuna and the Bolivian altipla As an anthropologist she investigates the historically-constructed relations and discourses between indigenes, archaeologists, and the state in Atacama, and heritage processes in Chile. She has organized meetings, workshops, and symposia, and co-edited issues of Chungara (2003) and Textos Antropologicos (2005) about these topics. She has published Politicas del pasado. Indigenas, arqueologos y Estado en Atacama (Universidad Catolica del Norte, Antofagasta, 2008).