A coleção etnográfica do Museu Goeldi e o protagonismo feminino no processo de musealização do patrimônio cultural amazônico, de 1960 a 2020

Abstract

The process of musealization of ethnographic objects appears in Brazilian Museums through “museum practices” in which they were “collected” from their places of origin, and began to have new meanings in the museum space. The objective of this research is to investigate female protagonism in the organization and curation of the Curt Nimuendajú Technical Reserve Ethnographic Collection of the Goeldi Museum, in recent decades, making a contribution to strengthening the female role in the Brazilian museological process. Based on the speeches of Cláudia Leonor López Garcés, Ivelise Rodrigues, Lucia Hussak van Velthem and Suzana Primo dos Santos Karipuna, we seek to understand the process of collaborative musealization with the indigenous peoples of the Amazon, with regard to safeguarding their cultural heritage. The history of collections and collecting needs to seek new perspectives, highlighting the female perception in the museum space, so that we understand that this trajectory needs new narratives or even to be (re)told in Brazil.