The alive cultural heritage of the Munduruku, Apiaká and Kayabi ethnic groups

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, André Luis dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Faces da História
• Texto Completo: https://seer.assis.unesp.br/index.php/facesdahistoria/article/view/1607
• topic: Povos Indígenas; Patrimônio Cultural; Amazônia; Native Americans; Cultural Heritage; Amazon

Apiaká, Munduruku and Kayabi, between the years 2010 and 2019, claimed the right to own twelve funerary urns of their ancestors who - after the archaeological rescue of the archaeological artifacts that were in the area directly affected by the construction of the Teles Pires hydroelectric plant - were stored at the Alta Floresta Museum (MT). Their dispute for the right to vote is within the scope of a broader struggle: the right to territorial autonomy, thus, in different manifestos and interviews, indigenous people question not only the idea of ​​development engendered by the State in the Amazon territory, but the way it was / the preservation of cultural heritage in Brazil is considered and, in these terms, they make a point of establishing a distinction in relation to the cultural heritage of the non-Indian: the indigenous heritage is alive and, therefore, is not preserved in Museums, but in the very relationship of the indigenous people with nature and the imagined national community