INAPL

The INAPL is a government agency of Argentina, and is part of the Argentina's secretariat of culture.{{Cite web|title=Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano {{!}} Ministerio de Cultura|url=https://www.cultura.gob.ar/institucional/organismos/museos/instituto-nacional-de-antropologia-y-pensamiento-latinoamericano/|access-date=2021-06-19|website=www.cultura.gob.ar|language=es}}

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The INAPL is dedicated to preserving national cultural and archeological heritage. As such, the primary focus of the institute is the documentation, preservation, and recovery of cultural heritage, be it physical or non-physical. The institute carries out research in the areas of archaeology, anthropology, and folklore. In keeping with their mission, they also give recommendations and alternative proposals on regional economic and socio-cultural development.

One of the programs of the INAPL is to preserve rock art sites and save them from deterioration and destruction. This program has been in place since 1995. Of these sites, Cueva de las Manos has been given top priority.

The INAPL was created on December 20, 1943. It was created at the behest of Juan Alfonso Carrizo, who would become the institute's first director.{{Cite web|title=Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano|url=https://inapl.cultura.gob.ar/info/instituto-nacional-de-antropologia-y-pensamiento-latinoamericano/|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano|language=es}}

The institute has had several names over the course of its existence; the first of these was The National Institute of Tradition assigned at its founding in 1943. In the words of Briones and Guber, the institute was later renamed for political reasons to "the National Institute of Philology and Folklore in 1955, the National Institute of Folkloric Research in 1960, the National Institute of Anthropology in 1964, and [finally] the National Institute of Anthropology and Latin American Thought in 1992."{{Cite book|last1=Briones|first1=Claudia|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/165081955|chapter=Argentina: Contagious Marginalities|title=A Companion to Latin American Anthropology|date=2008|isbn=978-0-631-23468-5|location=Malden, MA|page=19|oclc=165081955|editor-last=Poole|editor-first=Deborah|publisher=Blackwell Publishing|doi=10.1002/9781444301328.ch1|last2=Guber|first2=Rosana}}

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Among the institute's current and former projects is the study of HMS Swift (1763), a British ship that sank off of the coast of Puerto Deseado in 1770.{{Cite book|last=Elkin|first=Dolores|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YqhJDAAAQBAJ|title=Underwater and Maritime Archaeology in Latin America and the Caribbean|date=2016-06-03|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-315-41608-3|editor-link=Margaret Leshikar-Denton|editor2-link=Pilar Luna|editor-last=Leshikar-Denton|editor-first=Margaret E|edition=1|series=One world archaeology series|location=New York|language=en|chapter=Maritime Archaeology in Argentina at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología|doi=10.4324/9781315416090|orig-year=First published in print in 2008 by Left Coast Press|editor-last2=Luna Erreguerena|editor-first2=Pilar|via=Google Books}} The discovery and investigation of the ship was one of the first taken on by the INAPL's newly created underwater archaeology program in Argentina, which was formed in 1995.{{Cite journal|last=Luna Erreguerena|first=Pilar|author-link=Pilar Luna |date=December 2010|title=Mexico: A Leader in Ratification of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11457-010-9069-7|journal=Journal of Maritime Archaeology|language=en|volume=5|issue=2|page=150|doi=10.1007/s11457-010-9069-7|issn=1557-2285|jstor=23753384|bibcode=2010JMarA...5..143E|s2cid=162566211}}

The INAPL, along with the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), is also a major sponsor of the DocAnt film festival, the oldest currently-running anthropological film festival in Latin America.{{Cite book|last=Peirano|first=Maria Paz|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974947575|title=Film Festivals and Anthropology|date=2017|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-1683-0|editor-last=Vallejo|editor-first=Aida|pages=78|oclc=974947575|editor-last2=Peirano|editor-first2=Maria Paz}} The INAPL runs the National Museum of Man in Argentina.{{Cite journal|last=Japkin|first=Silvia|date=2010|title=Tying together the chaguar threads|journal=Datatèxtil|issue=23|page=23|issn=1139-028X}}

• Sandra Analía Guillermo—recipient of the John L. Cotter Award in Historical Archaeology{{Cite journal|last1=Rolandi|first1=Diana|last2=Majewski|first2=Teresita|date=June 2015|title=Sandra Analía Guillermo|journal=Historical Archaeology|language=en|publication-date=24 October 2016|volume=49|issue=2|pages=15–17|doi=10.1007/BF03377137|issn=0440-9213|doi-access=free|s2cid=164268591}}

• The National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET)—an Argentine organization that works closely with the INAPL

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