The fabrication of otherness in Latin American museums: Amerindian representations and circulation of ethnographic objects from the 19th to the 21st century

Authors

  • Glória Kok Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-02672018v26e06d1

Keywords:

Amerindians, Representations, Museums, Ethnographic objects, Indigenous museums

Abstract

This article intends on highlighting the Amerindian representations elaborated in museums and based on the objects that reified certain images that circulate until the present day. If, in the nineteenth century, the inhabitants of America were represented as extinct, on the verge of extinction or with visible signs of degeneracy, in a historical turnaround during the twenty-first century, the Amerindian populations created their own representations and objects, appropriating museums as spaces of mobilization for rights and reconstruction of their own trajectories, struggles, memories and identities.

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Author Biography

  • Glória Kok, Universidade de São Paulo

    Mestrado e Doutorado em História Social pela USP. Pós-doutorado em Antropologia na Unicamp e pós-doutorado no Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da Universidade de São Paulo.

Published

2018-06-12

Issue

Section

Material Culture Studies/Dossier

How to Cite

KOK, Glória. The fabrication of otherness in Latin American museums: Amerindian representations and circulation of ethnographic objects from the 19th to the 21st century. Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material, São Paulo, v. 26, p. e06d1, 2018. DOI: 10.1590/1982-02672018v26e06d1. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.usp.br/anaismp/article/view/140444.. Acesso em: 24 may. 2024.