@MASTERSTHESIS{ 2021:444167304,
 	title = {Theory and practice in basin archaeology : understanding archaeological epistemologies throughout the Rio de la Plata Basin},
 	year = {2021},
 	url = "http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/9609",
 	abstract = "The interplay and discussions between theory and method in archaeology have developed an
 on-going and incessantly dynamic relationship throughout the discipline?s short history. At the
 core of the debate are concerns about what kinds of knowledge can be reliably obtained from the
 material record of the past(s). This prodding into the limits and possibilities of
 archaeologically-derived epistemology are explored in this project at a regional scale. This paper
 attempts to reveal the dynamics between the historical and political precedents of a region?s
 research history and how the specifics of the area?s archaeological record combine to manifest
 unique combinations of method and theory (praxis) that sculpt research priorities. It uses a
 selection of contemporary case studies from throughout the Rio de la Plata Basin in order to
 illustrate the wide variety of methodological approaches. It is meant as both a wide-ranging
 survey sample of the theory and method at play in current research in the area, but also an
 introduction to the perennial archaeological topics of interest unique to the basin region. By
 taking a regional approach to the theoretical questions about the variety of epistemic goals of
 archaeology, it is hoped the paper can offer concrete examples, in a verifiable historico-regional
 context, of how both ontologically objective (measurable) and ontologically subjective (human
 internal) realities of the past are both being approached simultaneously in contemporary
 archaeology.",
 	publisher = {Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul},
 	scholl = {Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Hist?ria},
 	note = {Escola de Humanidades}
}