Banca de DEFESA: Marília Caetano Rodrigues Morais

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STUDENT : Marília Caetano Rodrigues Morais
DATE: 04/12/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: ZOOM
TITLE:

Following practices of collecting and exhibiting Iny (Karajá) collections: Traces from a Past Exhibition at the National Museum (RJ). 

KEY WORDS:

Ethnographic collections; indigenous collections; museums and anthropology;
National Museum; Iny (Karajá).

PAGES: 226
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Antropologia
SUMMARY:

Following practices of collecting and
exhibiting Iny (Karajá) collections: Traces from a Past Exhibition at the National Museum
(RJ). 2023. (no de folhas). Dissertation (Master's) - Department of Anthropology, Institute of
Social Sciences, University of Brasília, Brasília. This dissertation investigates the practices of
collecting and exhibiting Iny collections at the "old" National Museum, specifically focusing
on an exhibition experience that predates the 2018 fire, titled “The Karajás: Feathers and
Ethnography”, which was on display from 2012 until it was abruptly interrupted by the tragic
event. The research seeks to understand how these practices developed during different
moments of ethnographic collection and exhibition production and how they relate to
contemporary discussions about “past” practices that should be abandoned and “future”
practices that are desired. The methodological choices, impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic,
which radically transformed the possibilities of ethnographic research, especially between
2020 and 2022. The approach involves following the traces left by the mentioned exhibition
through an ethnographic method based on archival materials and digital resources, involving
human and non-human actors who played relevant roles in various stages, from the formation
of collections to the production of the exhibition. Additionally, it aims to recover the memory
and map significant events associated with the exhibition's production, tracing the trajectory
of objects that migrated from villages to the museum and later from the technical reserve to
the exhibition space. The study also intends to present institutional, anthropological, and Iny
(Karajá) perspectives related to collections and the exhibition, contextualizing this experience
in terms of institutional policies, anthropological production, and indigenous protagonism.
Through ethnographic narrative, the complexities of the collection, the curatorial possibilities
of the time, and the controversies that permeated this experience are highlighted. The study
contributes to the understanding of the practices of collecting and exhibiting indigenous
collections in science museums, promoting a critical reflection on the past and future of these
practices.

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