Potências e desafios da interculturalidade na pesquisa em gestão de acervos arqueológicos

Abstract

Archaeologists working at centennial institutions are pushed to rethink curatorial practices and policies in order to achieve new ambitions that arise from historically accumulated collections. Recognizing this need for renovation, I will highlight ongoing efforts with the archaeological collection held at the Goeldi Museum (Belém/Pará/Brazil) to engage local people in more open, dialogical, and horizontal perspectives. In this essay, I attempt to demonstrate the power that arises from these collections when they are subjected to new reading possibilities by various collectives, including artists, scientists, and communities. The “rediscovery” of these collections requires a reassessment of the conception of archaeological collections and their active engagement with life and society. When conceived in a larger sense, they pervade the materiality of objects and their documentation, and overflow in numerous layers, tangible and intangible, of multiple (spirals of) readings, translations, and resignifications.