Beyond objects: experiences, narratives, and materialities in the musealization of archaeology and indigenous cultural heritage

• Autor(a) principal: Moraes-Wichers, Camila A. de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Passos dos Santos, Karlla Kamylla, Sá, Aluane de, Beltrão de Oliveira, Tatyana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Arqueologia
• Texto Completo: https://revista.sabnet.org/ojs/index.php/sab/article/view/854
• topic: Musealização da Arqueologia; patrimônio cultural Indígena; mediação; Musealización de la Arqueología; patrimonio arqueológico Indígena; mediación; Musealization of Archaeology; Indigenous cultural heritage; mediation

Through the musealization of the Iny-Karajá Indigenous and archaeological heritage, a process that involves things, landscapes, images, narratives, and experiences from the “Araguaia River: a place of memories and identities” project, we discuss some of the potentialities and challenges concerning the musealization of archaeology. Focusing on educational activities conducted for non-Indigenous school-age visitors to the project’s exhibition at the Museum of Anthropology of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), we show how stereotypes and silencing of indigenous peoples are present in the students’ worldview and imagination. We also point out the efforts needed to construct a mediation aimed at reversing those views. We advocate that the musealization of archaeology should play an openly committed role in the antiracist struggle, considering that its narratives regard indigenous and other colonized peoples.