'Zabé come zumbi, zumbi come Zabé': Afro-Brazilian art and racial relations in Brazil

• Grant number: 14/26775-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: June 01, 2015
• End date: February 28, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Populations
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz
• Grantee: Hélio Santos Menezes Neto
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The present project focuses on the unsettled theme of the so called African-Brazilian art, taking the Museum Afro-Brazil (SP) and the African-Brazilian Museum (Salvador) as privileged spaces for ethnographic analysis. Our approach examines two complementary dimensions: the "musealization" process of this art, as well as the contradictions of its classificatory ability. The existence of an uncertain, but steady relation between the domains of this artistic field's specificity and the contingencies of the racial taxonomy engendered in Brazilian sociability underlies the general understanding of this study. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MENEZES NETO, Hélio Santos. Between the visible and the hidden: the construction of the concept of Afro-Brazilian art. 2017. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.