The MAAC will hold its first congress on anthropology, archeology and history in Guayaquil

He Anthropological and Contemporary Art Museum (MAAC), of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, announces its I Congress “Identities, Representations and Memories of the Ecuadorian Coast: Perspectives from the anthropology, archeology and history”which will be held on the days 29, 30 and 31 August 2023in the MAAC auditorium (Malecón and Loja).

This meeting has Academic endorsement from the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (Espol), the Espíritu Santo Technological University Institute (TES) and Florida Atlantic University (FAU), of the United States.

It also emphasizes the cooperation of the National Academy of History, Guayaquil chapter; the National Society of Archaeology, Anthropology and History (Conah); the Ecuadorian Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM Ecuador) and the Technical Unit of Cultural Heritage of the Municipal GAD of Guayaquil.

This space, in which new research in these sciences will be disseminated, is aimed at researchers and professionals in history, anthropology and archaeology; teachers and college students with related careers; primary and secondary school teachers, cultural managers and artists, and audience interested in history and the memory of the Ecuadorian coast, to update knowledge and discover new contributions arising from the research of specialized professionals. Those who register and attend all conferences will receive a certificate endorsed by the participating universities.

The Congress will be face-to-face and will consist of magisterial conferences and special visits to the MAAC exhibitions. Free registrations are available digitally.

The rectors of the partner universities will participate in the opening program – which will start on Tuesday 29 August at 9.30 am: Dr. Cecilia Paredes, of Espol, and Magister Maritza Salazar, of TES; as well as the executive director of the MAAC, Hugo Calle Forrest.

The Dance School of the House of Culture of Guayas will be present with his work Ceremony. Next one, the conference program starts at 10 am, with the theme “Reflections on History and Memory”, by the anthropologist Hugo Calle, who will refer to the similarities and differences of these two concepts, which appear to be synonymous but are not.

Starting at 10:30 am, Magno Marriott (“Geographical and Political Context of the Former Province of Guayaquil”), Ezio Garay (“The Afro-Descendants of Guayaquil in the Colony and the Beginning of the Republic”) and Ángel Emilio Hidalgo (“Economy and Society in the Former Province of Guayaquil”).

In the afternoon, from 2:30 pm, the researcher Gabriel Paredes will intervene (“Representations of the Montubio identity memory: Montubio orality and the proverb used in the countryside”), the historian Jenny Estrada (“El montubio, an identity maker”), María Isabel Silva (“The Salangome Territory: The Social Organization of Ancestral Merchant Ships”), to conclude with Jorge Gómez Rendón (“The Original Languages ​​of the Ecuadorian Coast”).

On day 2, Wednesday 30, it will start at 09:00 with the participation of Dr. Silvia Álvarez Litben (“Supernatural Entities for a Dialogue of Knowledge and Worldviews in the Tropical Dry Forest”), Marie Therese Lager (“Tourism and Intersectional Identities in the Municipalities of Santa Elena. The Empirical Cases of Olón and Montañita”), Edmundo Aguilar ( “Heuristic Approach to Ethnohistorical Research: Social Being and Way of Life in the Characteristic Development of an Exceptional Personality: The Case of María Cayche Chonana, 16th Century”) and Natalia Tamayo (“The female representation linked to health in Guayaquil, at the beginning of the 20th century”).

The afternoon session of this day starts at 2.30 pm with a visit to the showroom The Valdivia figurine: the American icon of the Neolithic Revolution. To continue with the conferences – from 3 p.m. – of Diana Ortiz (“Iconographical and semiotic analysis of the Manteño torteros”), Estefanía Baquerizo (“Restoring the historical memory related to the struggle of peasant women in the province of Guayas”) And Marcela Blacio (“Guayaquil, ideas and identities in narco times”).

The last day -Thursday 30- begins at 09:00, with the participation of doctors Jorge Marcos and Omar Olivo del Olmo (“Shells, sand and adobes: the first builders in earthen architecture in Real Alto”), Marcos Suárez (“Historical perspective of archaeological studies in Guayaquil”), Amelia Sánchez (“Recent contributions to the study of the archaic of the Ecuadorian coast”), Guilherme Mongelo (“New Study on Guancavilca Society”), archaeologist Daniel Rivas (“Decolonization of the Material Culture of Valdivia”), Paula Torres (“Isotopic Signals and the Reconstruction of 6,000 Years of Indigenous Diet in Ecuador”).

In the afternoon, from 2.30 pm, a visit to the showroom is planned The 10,000 years of ancient Ecuador. At 3 p.m., the last day of the Congress will begin with the intervention of the archaeologist Génesis Delgado (“Silences and Absences in Archaeology: The Case of Afro-Descendants in Guayaquil”); to continue with the closing conferences, by Valentina Martínez (“Identity and Gender in the Ancient Cultures of the Ecuadorian Coast”) and Mariella García (“The statuette as a reflection of the Valdivia society: chronology and social use of the figurine through a comparative method of collections”).

Finally, the public will listen to the general conclusions of the congress.

Admission is free for all conferences. For more information, the numbers 099-218-5719 and 099-858-3316 can be reached. (JO)

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