História de vida de uma urna marajoara: reconectando contextos e significados

Abstract

This article aims to recover information about the life history of an important Marajoara funerary urn that is part of the archaeological collection of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, in order to reflect on museum actions that tend to disconnect objects from their contexts and individualize them. By analyzing other objects found in the same archaeological context and highlighting their individualization and privileged visibility in extroversion actions, we perceive the construction of a differentiated relationship between object and public. Based on the analysis of its life history, we assess that a new proposal for spatial allocation of the urn within the technical reserve, together with the pieces from its original context of deposition, can bring new possibilities for reinterpretation and resignification of archaeological collections.