Marcos Albuquerque
Adjunct Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) in the Graduate Program in Social Sciences (PPCIS) and in the Graduate Program in Art History (PPGHA). Doctor in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2011). He holds a degree in Social Sciences, with specialization 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 N.A.d.A (Nucleus of Anthropology of Art) – UERJ; vice-coordinator of INARRA (Images, Narratives and Cultural Practices) – UERJ, he is also affiliated with NEPI (Center for Studies of Indigenous Populations) – UFSC, with LACED (Laboratory of Research in Ethnicity, Culture and Development) – UFRJ, and linked to the RAMA network (Network of research in memory, identity, power, environment and territory). He has experience in the area of Anthropology and Art, with emphasis on ethnic art, performance, museums and visual anthropology.
Research project
Title
The authenticity device: indigenous presence in museums
Area of Inquiry and Research
Art and Otherness
Description
This project intends to investigate indigenous presence in museums. By "presence" here is understood the imagetic regime that operates in these institutions, that is, the modalities of managing the image of the indigenous. Museums, indigenous museums and "indigenized" museums have been presenting themselves as an important space for academic reflection. In this project I analyze the modalities by which the colonial signature relates to the metonymic management of the past and the contemporary in these institutions. For this, I resort to field and ethnographic investigation combined with theoretical problematizations about the effects of the authenticity device in the intercultural promotion of indigenous traditions.