Subsidies for the installation of the Indigenous Documentation Center - actions by the Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology

• Grant number: 24/17181-2
• Support Opportunities: Special Projects
• Start date: March 01, 2025
• End date: February 28, 2030
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Góes Neves
• Grantee: Eduardo Góes Neves
• Host Institution: Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais: Luciana Raccanello Storto ; Maria Luisa de Souza Lucas ; Thomas Daniel Finbow
• Associated researchers: ana vilacy moreira galucio ; Antônia Fernanda de Souza Nogueira ; Carlos Augusto Zimpel Neto ; Dennis Albert Moore ; Felipe Ferreira Vander Velden ; Hendrikus Gerardus Antonius van der Voort ; Ivan Rocha da Silva ; Luisa Gonçalves Girardi ; Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino ; Thiago Lopes da Costa Oliveira
• Associated scholarship(s): 25/01054-4 - Translating the World and Making Persons through Kertí Werése, The Everyday Communicative Practice of the Tukano, BP.DR

Abstract

In partnership with indigenous communities, the Indigenous Documentation Center will combine collaborative research, teaching and cultural dissemination by enabling the creation of a digital repository of collections based on qualified documentation of linguistic and cultural knowledge of indigenous peoples in Brazil and neighbor countries. Structured from two major lines of research (linguistic and anthropological), it will focus on the documentation of linguistic knowledge, with special emphasis on endangered languages, and the documentation of intangible knowledge, especially those associated with the production of material culture and the relationships with the landscape. These lines will work in direct dialogue with the object collections and archaelogical research conducted by MAE USP and partner museums. (AU)