Between archives and collections by Harald Schultz and Vilma Chiara: research and scientific dissemination connecting Brazil and Germany

• Grant number: 21/10506-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: March 15, 2022
• End date: September 14, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Sylvia Caiuby Novaes
• Grantee: Maria Julia Fernandes Vicentin
• Supervisor: Barbara Gobel
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Germany
• Associated to the scholarship: 20/03824-8 - Scientific and ethnographic images in Brazil: Harald Schultz, Vilma Chiara and Indigenous Peoples, BP.MS

Abstract

The research intends to survey the archives, collections and narratives related to the ethnographic production of Harald Schultz and Vilma Chiara that are deposited in Germany. In research already carried out at MAE - USP's Archeology and Ethnology Museum, I identified about 60 ethnographic films produced by the ethnological couple for the project of the Cinematographic Encyclopedia (EC) of the Göttingen Scientific Film Institute (IWF) in Germany. In a recent search for these original films in the archives digitized in German institutions, upon the validity of the master's research "Scientific and ethnographic images in Brazil: Harald Schultz, Vilma Chiara and Indigenous Peoples", some unpublished titles from this collection of ethnographic films were found. Following this recent discovery, this new research project abroad is configured as an important scientific, historical and ethnographic bridge to be carried out between the fields of museology, indigenous ethnology, visual anthropology among Brazil and Germany.