The Museu Nacional through networks: associations in movement and the disturbance after the fire

• Grant number: 21/00928-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2021
• End date: June 30, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino
• Grantee: Camila Monteiro Corvisier
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project aims to investigate the production of the Museu Nacional through its networks of actants. Museum and actants are at reciprocal possession: while the former assembles and multiplies the relations, the later draws trajectories that compose the museum. As a first research part, we will explore the associations through the trajectory of a particular agent, a Shuar shrunken head. As a second research part, we will investigate the transformations of such associations after the destruction caused by the fire on September 2018. (AU)