ABSTRACT
In recent years, historical archaeology, following a trend already observed in the human sciences, has become interested in the study of sense-affective relations. It has been acknowledged that senses, far from being just a physiological tool that captures pre-existing stimuli, are capacities that allow us to affect and be affected by everything around us. Through the senses and affects we interact with the world and create policies of identification of the self and the other. In this sense colonialism, ethnocentrism, racism, xenophobia, and chauvinism are not only discursive formations, but are naturalized practices through sense-affective relations.
