Interview with João Pacheco de Oliveira

• Autor(a) principal: de Almeida, Maria Regina Celestino
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Acervo (Rio de Janeiro. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.an.gov.br/index.php/revistaacervo/article/view/1754

João Pacheco de Oliveira is an anthropologist, professor and researcher in the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology of the Museu Nacional, of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), a researcher 1A of the research funding agency CNPq and has a scholarship from the research funding agency Faperj’s Program “Our State’s Scientist”. He made a long duration field research study with the Ticuna people, in Alto Solimões (Amazon), which resulted in both his graduate thesis, his MScs (UnB, 1977) and PhD (UFRJ, 1986), the last one was published in 1988. He also realized several researches on public policies, coordinating a large surveying project of native lands in Brazil (1986-1994), with support of the Ford Foundation. He was research advisor to more than sixty thesis and dissertations at theGraduate Program in Social Anthropology of the UFRJ with a concentration on indigenous peoples of Brazilian Amazon and Northeast, at a program of comparative researches on ethnicity and territory supported by CNPq and Finepresearch funding agencies. Worked as visiting professor at graduate research and studies centers in Brazil (Unicamp, UFPE, UFBA, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco e Ufam) and abroad (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina; Università di Roma La Sapienza, Itália; École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Institute des Hautes Études de l`Amérique Latine, França; Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Buenos Aires). He was president of the Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (1994/1996) and, several times, was coordinator of itsIndigenous Affairs Commission, in recent years he has been studying questions connected to the anthropology of colonialism and historical anthropology, developing works concerning the national formation process, historiography, and also museums and ethnographic collections. He is curator of ethnological collections at the Museu Nacional and organized recently the exhibition “The First Brazilians”, related to the Brazilian Northeastern indigenous peoples, exhibited in Recife, Fortaleza and Rio de Janeiro and currently at the Museo Superior de Bellas Artes Evita, in Córdoba (Argentina). Together with indigenous leaderships he was one of the founders of Maguta: Centro de Documentação e Pesquisa do Alto Solimões, located in Benjamin Constant (Amazon state), that originated the Museu Maguta, administrated today directly by the indigenous movement.