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The Invention of Indigenous America - by Anna Bottesi (Hardcover)

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  • For decades, museums have been recognized as spaces for public debate and civic education, where discourses produced through exhibitions and other activities contribute to the construction and legitimation of particular views of society and the world.
  • About the Author: Anna Bottesi is a post-doc researcher.
  • 250 Pages
  • Social Science, Ethnic Studies

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About the Book



This book explores the decolonization of ethnographic collections by analyzing the historical and cultural narratives surrounding artifacts from two Brazilian Indigenous groups and preserved in European museums.



Book Synopsis



For decades, museums have been recognized as spaces for public debate and civic education, where discourses produced through exhibitions and other activities contribute to the construction and legitimation of particular views of society and the world. The research presented in this book stems from a desire to engage in the ongoing debate aimed at rethinking ethnographic museums and their ways of producing representations of others. It seeks to explore new ways and possible solutions, alongside existing ones, to transform these spaces into inclusive environments for the production of knowledge that is as shared, plural, and decolonized as possible.
The focus is on some artifacts belonging to two Brazilian Indigenous populations, but kept and exhibited in two ethnographic museums in Lisbon and Vienna. Specifically, a Kambeba bamboo board for flattening the head of newborn babies, collected by Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira during the Philosophical Journey of 1783-1792 and kept at the Academy of Sciences in Lisbon, and a set of Munduruku feather works collected by the Austrian naturalist Johann Natterer between 1817 and 1835 and kept at the Völkerkundemuseum in Vienna.
By combining historical and ethnographic approaches, the aim is, on one hand, to show the role of objects in producing a specific stereotypical image of Brazilian natives, and, on the other hand, to discuss the presence of Indigenous objects in European museums to bring out different discourses, histories, and categories that have been silenced by colonial power and through which material culture is perceived and contextualized across time and space.



About the Author



Anna Bottesi is a post-doc researcher. She makes research on ethnographic collections and Indigenous peoples in Brazil.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.0 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Ethnic Studies
Genre: Social Science
Number of Pages: 250
Publisher: Anthem Press
Theme: Hispanic American Studies
Format: Hardcover
Author: Anna Bottesi
Language: English
Street Date: January 13, 2026
TCIN: 1002509397
UPC: 9781839995736
Item Number (DPCI): 247-49-6853
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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