Sorcery objects under institutional tutelage: magic and power in ethnographic collections

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Autor(a) principal: Rafael,Ulisses N.
Data de Publicação: 2013
Outros Autores: Maggie,Yvonne
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Vibrant
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-43412013000100014
Resumo: This essay returns to a discussion of two collections of objects taken from two terreiros (places of worship) for Afro-Brazilian cults, namely the Magia Negra (Black Magic) collection at the Museu da Polícia do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro Police Museum) and the Perseverança collection at the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Alagoas - IHGAL (Alagoas Historical and Geographical Institute), in Maceió. In both cases we looked at how members of Brazil's elite are involved in sorcery and how members of this elite circulate in candomblé, xangô, umbanda and other terreiros. In this essay, in particular, we examine the subject of the collections in the context of recent changes arising from heritage-listing policies in Brazil that have decisively affected relations between these objects and institutions charged with protecting and preserving cultural heritage.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Sorcery objects under institutional tutelage: magic and power in ethnographic collections
title Sorcery objects under institutional tutelage: magic and power in ethnographic collections
spellingShingle Sorcery objects under institutional tutelage: magic and power in ethnographic collections
Rafael,Ulisses N.
Afro-Brazilian cults
collections
heritage
sorcery
State
elites
title_short Sorcery objects under institutional tutelage: magic and power in ethnographic collections
title_full Sorcery objects under institutional tutelage: magic and power in ethnographic collections
title_fullStr Sorcery objects under institutional tutelage: magic and power in ethnographic collections
title_full_unstemmed Sorcery objects under institutional tutelage: magic and power in ethnographic collections
title_sort Sorcery objects under institutional tutelage: magic and power in ethnographic collections
author Rafael,Ulisses N.
author_facet Rafael,Ulisses N.
Maggie,Yvonne
author_role author
author2 Maggie,Yvonne
author2_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Rafael,Ulisses N.
Maggie,Yvonne
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Afro-Brazilian cults
collections
heritage
sorcery
State
elites
topic Afro-Brazilian cults
collections
heritage
sorcery
State
elites
description This essay returns to a discussion of two collections of objects taken from two terreiros (places of worship) for Afro-Brazilian cults, namely the Magia Negra (Black Magic) collection at the Museu da Polícia do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro Police Museum) and the Perseverança collection at the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Alagoas - IHGAL (Alagoas Historical and Geographical Institute), in Maceió. In both cases we looked at how members of Brazil's elite are involved in sorcery and how members of this elite circulate in candomblé, xangô, umbanda and other terreiros. In this essay, in particular, we examine the subject of the collections in the context of recent changes arising from heritage-listing policies in Brazil that have decisively affected relations between these objects and institutions charged with protecting and preserving cultural heritage.
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