Os Xetá e seus acervos: memória histórica, política e afetiva (Paraná, Brasil)
In the middle of the last century, the Xetá, speakers of a Tupi-Guarani language of southern Brazil, were contacted and rapidly decimated, losing 70% of their population in the course of a decade. During those years, vast amounts of documentation about the group were collected (films, artefacts, sou...
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| author | Edilene Coffaci de Lima Lilianny Rodriguez Barreto dos Passos Rafael Pacheco |
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| description | In the middle of the last century, the Xetá, speakers of a Tupi-Guarani language of southern Brazil, were contacted and rapidly decimated, losing 70% of their population in the course of a decade. During those years, vast amounts of documentation about the group were collected (films, artefacts, sound recordings…), covering a wide range of fields (ethnomusicology, archaeology, linguistics…). Though still deterritorialized, the Xetá have now demographically recovered and show growing interest in the collections deposited in museums, which document their tragic history, enshrined in a crystallized and irrevocable form. Nowadays, emulating their forebears, Xetá family groups (re) produce stone axes, animal figurines, arrowheads, necklaces, and they collect films and photographs in which past life is recovered. Categorized somewhere between “work” and “relics”, this production is key to the dynamics of their social life and establishes a sort of logic, both objective and subjective, permeated by concepts of temporality. Reflecting on these dynamics, this article intends to show how “the things of the times when our forebears lived in the forest” create life; in other words, how they reconfigure the Xetá’s political, social, emotional, memorial and temporal lives. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5d53d9549fe4487d92efd9e4b509f6bf2022-12-22T02:31:50ZengSociété des américanistesJournal de la Société des Américanistes0037-91741957-78422021-09-01107112715010.4000/jsa.19503Os Xetá e seus acervos: memória histórica, política e afetiva (Paraná, Brasil)Edilene Coffaci de LimaLilianny Rodriguez Barreto dos PassosRafael PachecoIn the middle of the last century, the Xetá, speakers of a Tupi-Guarani language of southern Brazil, were contacted and rapidly decimated, losing 70% of their population in the course of a decade. During those years, vast amounts of documentation about the group were collected (films, artefacts, sound recordings…), covering a wide range of fields (ethnomusicology, archaeology, linguistics…). Though still deterritorialized, the Xetá have now demographically recovered and show growing interest in the collections deposited in museums, which document their tragic history, enshrined in a crystallized and irrevocable form. Nowadays, emulating their forebears, Xetá family groups (re) produce stone axes, animal figurines, arrowheads, necklaces, and they collect films and photographs in which past life is recovered. Categorized somewhere between “work” and “relics”, this production is key to the dynamics of their social life and establishes a sort of logic, both objective and subjective, permeated by concepts of temporality. Reflecting on these dynamics, this article intends to show how “the things of the times when our forebears lived in the forest” create life; in other words, how they reconfigure the Xetá’s political, social, emotional, memorial and temporal lives.http://journals.openedition.org/jsa/19503Xetámuseumscollectionshistory |
| spellingShingle | Edilene Coffaci de Lima Lilianny Rodriguez Barreto dos Passos Rafael Pacheco Os Xetá e seus acervos: memória histórica, política e afetiva (Paraná, Brasil) Journal de la Société des Américanistes Xetá museums collections history |
| title | Os Xetá e seus acervos: memória histórica, política e afetiva (Paraná, Brasil) |
| title_full | Os Xetá e seus acervos: memória histórica, política e afetiva (Paraná, Brasil) |
| title_fullStr | Os Xetá e seus acervos: memória histórica, política e afetiva (Paraná, Brasil) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Os Xetá e seus acervos: memória histórica, política e afetiva (Paraná, Brasil) |
| title_short | Os Xetá e seus acervos: memória histórica, política e afetiva (Paraná, Brasil) |
| title_sort | os xeta e seus acervos memoria historica politica e afetiva parana brasil |
| topic | Xetá museums collections history |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/jsa/19503 |
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