Antropologia e arqueologia e a nação de totalidade

Abstract

The scientific imaginary connected to Archaeology makes, one suppose that its findings would result in "filling", "suturing" or "mending" a lackof information that, if completed, would perhaps end in permitting the establishment of what "has actually happened" in historical spaceltime. The relations between Archaeology and Social Anthropology should not nourish a deceiving dream of completeness through a "complementary sum ", which would mean to think of Archaeology as a discipline intended for "discovering" ali Human History, and of Antropology as the "comprehensive explanation" that Reason could possibly give to archaeological findings.