SAA – Society for American Archaeology

91ST Annual Meeting 2026

San Francisco

Symposion: Places of Afro-Iindigenous Liberation: Genealogies, Arts, and Ancestral Practices


Chair(s): Daniela Balanzategui and Marianne Sallum

April 29 – May 3 / 2026


Participants:

Marianne Sallum, Marina Gomes, Wendel Daltosi, Lucia Aparecida da Rosa, and Francisco Silva Noelli—Genealogies and Memories in Afro-Indigenous Territories in the Ribeira Valley, Brazil

Daniela Balanzategui—Maroon Genealogies, Heritage, and Domestic Economies of Afro-Ecuadorian Women

Aria Vasquez-Young and Marco Fontan—Extraspatial Concepts of Domesticity: Theorizing Domestic Territories of Care in the Chota-Mira Valley


Gary Ervin—Mapping Marronage in the Chota Valley: Using GIS to Model Routes of Afro-Ecuadorian Resistance

Andrea Chavez and Kristen Delatour—Nurturing Afro-Descendant Epistemologies: Black Women in Heritage Preservation

Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Campus Guarulhos      Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas/EFLCH      
Estr. do Caminho Velho, 333 - Jardim Nova Cidade, Guarulhos - São Paulo, 07252-312, Brasil       e-mail: marianne.sallum@unifesp.br