As representações do outro na investigação das coleções sertanejas do MAE-USP

Abstract

This article discusses how the other is represented through museum collections. It is limited to collections housed at the Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo, MAE-USP, called collections came from wilderness. Such collections are composed of artifacts that are linked to a space and a time that once represented an unknown and inhospitable Brazil to the people of the cities. The article is an offshoot of research in progress, has empirical and bibliographic character, with survey and consultation of documentary sources, which contribute to the understanding of the researched universe.

Keywords: representations of the other; man who lived in wilderness lands; wilderness collections; practices of collecting, classifying and organizing objects.