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| Author(s): |
David William Aparecido Ribeiro
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2021-06-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Cristina Cortez Wissenbach;
Ana Lucia Araújo;
Marília Xavier Cury;
Daniela Paiva Yabeta de Moraes
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| Advisor: | Maria Cristina Cortez Wissenbach |
| Abstract | |
Following the paths of the Indigenous and Quilombolas peoples, especially after the promulgation of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988, this work aims to debate the role of cultural policies and the production of knowledge in the construction of narratives about the past and the mobilization for rights. To do so, I build a path to understand how these policies, especially those related to museums and heritage, as well as these knowledge productions, went from promoting to contesting the matrices of racism, from silencing to welcoming the narratives and thoughts of Black and Indigenous populations, both in Brazil and in other contexts. Starting from the processes that led to the registration of Tava, Place of Reference for the Guarani People (2014) and the Traditional Agricultural System of Quilombola Communities of Vale do Ribeira (2018) as Brazilian intangible heritage, I analyze the interactions between institutions, knowledge systems, and agents for the safeguarding of these cultural references. This analysis is based on the premise that, in both cases, there is a dialogue with the long trajectory of policies for the protection of cultural and natural heritage, at the national and international levels, which fall on the Ruins of the Jesuit Missions of the Guarani and the Atlantic Forest Southeast Reserves, even listed as World Heritage by Unesco. I defend the hypothesis that cultural policies are an essential way for the invisibilized populations to communicate their ways of being, living, and thinking to the surrounding society, as well as to demand the right to memory, difference, and territory. In the same sense, I consider that these Guarani and Quilombola paths, seen in conjunction with the Indigenous and Afro-diasporic paths from other parts of the world, are representative of decolonization strategies that can effectively transform the production of knowledge and culture into instruments of overcoming the silencing and dehumanization promoted by Slavery and Colonialism. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/19781-3 - Heritage, memory and narratives of Afro-Brazilian and indigenous history: relations between cultural policies and knowledge production in the contemporary Brazil |
| Grantee: | David William Aparecido Ribeiro |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |