ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ontologically intricate history of my involvement with an archaeological mining site, a site at which one of the earliest anticolonial uprisings started during the carnival of 1775. Beginning with the usual involvement of an archaeologist with prior research, and expanding to incorporate diverse historical agents, the chapter rapidly diversifies to include not only my intellectual consideration of agency but also my being as a political agent and living creature. The semiopraxis that develops in the course of the history told. Only occasionally does my writing or author ship whether as performance, oral discussion, or as part of collective and heterogeneous subjectivities intervene in the conversation. During carnival time, what is said is said in conversations across ontologies, in which locations and characters are inverted in surprising ways. The West's knowledge project is challenged, as its projects of intervention. Historian's interpretations of the rebellion ranged from a growing resistance to 'repartimientos' to the role inversion adopted during carnival time.
