Ethnographic collections and collaboration with indigenous groups past, present and future: production of knowledge and innovations in museum management policy

• Grant number: 22/05997-2
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2023
• End date: January 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Museology
• Principal Investigator: Marilia Xavier Cury
• Grantee: Marilia Xavier Cury
• Host Institution: Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Alice Lucas Semedo ; André Menezes Strauss ; Bruno César Brulon Soares ; Edmundo Marcelo Mendes Pereira ; Luciana Conrado Martins ; Luciana Helena Gonçalves ; Manuelina Maria Duarte Cândido ; María Marta Reca ; Mariana de Campos Françozo ; Veronica Wesolowski de Aguiar e Santos

Abstract

This is a project that involves the areas of museology, anthropology, archeology and law, that together place the museum in a central position as an institution of preservation, research, participation and of rights to musealization. The project finds its research problem in the historically constructed relations between museums and indigenous groups, aiming at reformulating paradigms from collaborative actions with the Kaingang, Guarani Nhandewa and Terena indigenous peoples (in the state of São Paulo), which contribute with social technologies in the museum space and the formation of a new professional profile. The main objective of such project is to intervene in the (re)formulation of collections management policies - a place of confluence of fundamental institutional issues that comprise collections and objects, in terms of the responsibilities that the museum assumes with indigenous peoples and groups, and with whom it works directly. The originality of the project lies in the expansion of the investigative angle that gives greater scope to the researches already carried out, but that also puts side by side the empirical experience lived in collaboration and observed ethnographically/museographically, and bibliographic reviews - a two-way between empiricism that triggers bibliography and bibliography reviewed through data from empirical reality. (AU)