Panela de barro: um estudo sobre cerâmica popular de Abaetetuba

Abstract

The study of popular pottery from Abaetetuba, part of the Project: "Ethnographic Collections: Formation and Documentary Research", coordinated by Lúcia Hussak van Velthen, from the Department of Humanities/ MPEG, proposes an anthropological study of material culture from the formation of an ethnographic collection. The research aims to collect and document the ceramic artifacts made by artisans who live in the headquarters and on 45 islands that are part of the municipality of Abaetetuba, located in the micro-region of Baixo Tocantins, northeast Pará. The resulting ethnography will seek to recover traditional rural technologies, since competition with industrial materials is contributing to their disappearance. A documentary work will be carried out through the identification, classification and cataloging of the artifacts. In the proposed study we will employ museological techniques to form the ethnographic collection, as well as the theoretical and methodological bases of anthropology, such as bibliographical sources, field work, oral history, and participant observation of the potters' daily life, thus aiming at an interdisciplinary perspective and scientific documentation. The Project will seek to enrich the ethnographic collection of the Goeldi Museum, as well as to include Abaetetuba in the mapping of popular pottery through a descriptive catalog of the pieces. In another stage, the results will be disseminated to the interested communities.