The Invention of Indigenous America (eBook)

Material Culture and Transatlantic Imaginaries on Indigenous Peoples in Brazil

Anna Bottesi (Autor)

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2026
302 Seiten
Anthem Press (Verlag)
978-1-83999-574-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The book presents recent research on the geographical, historical, and semantic trajectories of some artifacts belonging to two Brazilian Indigenous populations, but kept and exhibited in two ethnographic museums in Vienna and Lisbon. Located within the debate on the rethinking and decolonization of ethnographic collections and museums, its main objective is to investigate the role of material culture in the production of a stereotyped imaginary of the Amazonian Indigenous groups Kambeba and Munduruku. On one hand, it analyzes eighteenth-and nineteenth-century chronicles and illustrations produced by the naturalists who collected the objects in question; on the other hand, it pays attention to the perspectives of contemporary members of the local communities on such processes and on the ways in which their heritage has been and is being treated.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.1.2026
• Reihe/Serie: Anthem Brazilian Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Chapter 1- The Revenant West: Gothic and Spectral Landscapes • Chapter 2- Ghost Riders in the Lonesome West: The Homely and the Un-Homely • Chapter 3- Dead Men Walking • Chapter 4- Desolation Road • Decolonisation of stereotyped imaginary • Ethnographic Museums • Ethnographic museums, Objects' biography, Indigenous peoples in Brazil, Scientific expeditions in the Modern Age, Interpreting collections of indigenous artifacts, Decolonisation of stereotyped imaginary, Introduction- The Western as Eco-Gothic, Part One- The Savage West, Chapter 1- The Revenant West: Gothic and Spectral Landscapes, Chapter 2- Ghost Riders in the Lonesome West: The Homely and the Un-Homely, Part Two- To the Boneyard, Chapter 3- Dead Men Walking, Chapter 4- Desolation Road, Part Three- The N • indigenous peoples in brazil • Interpreting collections of indigenous artifacts • Introduction- The Western as Eco-Gothic • Objects' biography • Part One- The Savage West • Part Three- The New Viscera in the 21st Century Western • Part Two- To the Boneyard • Scientific expeditions in the Modern Age
• ISBN-10: 1-83999-574-2 / 1839995742
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83999-574-3 / 9781839995743