Welcome to the home of  ‘Identities as socio-material networks: perspectives from South America and beyond‘. The project aims at developing a research network to examine the power of archaeological  artefacts and places in cultural struggles over identity and recognition in a variety of settings.  The project follows the idea that while identities are never stable, they are networked configurations of tangible and intangible things, which are themselves the effects of those networks. While many of the participants focus on South America, the project has a wide comparative scope facilitated by contributions from Australia and the UK.