Marcos Albuquerque
Adjunct Professor at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) in the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences (PPCIS) and in the Postgraduate Program in Art History (PPGHA). PhD in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2011). He holds a degree in Social Sciences, with a major in Anthropology, from the Federal University of Campina Grande (2002) and a master's degree in Sociology from the Federal University of Paraíba (2005). He is currently Coordinator of the N.A.d.A (Art Anthropology Nucleus) – UERJ; vice-coordinator of INARRA (Images, Narratives and Cultural Practices) – UERJ, he is also affiliated with the NEPI (Nucleus of Indigenous Population Studies) – UFSC, with LACED (Laboratory of Research in Ethnicity, Culture and Development) – UFRJ, and linked to the RAMA network (Research network in memory, identity, power, environment and territory). He has experience in the field of Anthropology and Art, with an emphasis on ethnic art, performance, museums and visual anthropology.
Research project
Title
The device of authenticity: the indigenous presence in museums
Area of Inquiry and Research
Art and Otherness
Description
This project aims to investigate indigenous presence in museums. By “presence” here we mean the imagery regime that operates in these institutions, that is, the modalities of managing the image of the indigenous. Museums, indigenous and “indigenized” museums have been presenting themselves as an important space for academic reflection. In this project I analyze the ways in which the colonial signature is related to the metonymic management of the past and the contemporary in these institutions. In order to do this, I resort to field and ethnographic investigations added to theoretical problematizations about the effects of the authenticity device in the intercultural promotion of indigenous traditions.