Afro-Brazilian Cultural Heritage Network: Challenges and Potential of Collections

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v34i1pe243749

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Afro-Brazilian collections, Material culture, museum, Cultural Heritage

Abstract

Presentation text for the dossier "Afro-Brazilian Archives in Network: Actions in Perspective". The text highlights that networking is a historical and existential practice for the Afro-Brazilian population, serving as a continuous strategy of resistance against colonial violence and the erasure of memory. This movement manifests itself in the recent creation of the Afro-Brazilian Archives Network, which seeks to map, gather, and value initiatives, such as quilombos (maroon communities) and terreiros (Afro-Brazilian religious centers), that construct counter-narratives and challenge institutionalized racism in museums and archives. The works that make up the dossier demonstrate the vitality of these collective actions in different territories and languages, defending the preservation of Black memory as a crucial technology for survival and a path to a reparative future.

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  • Andrea Silva D’Amato, Universidade Federal de São Paulo

    Photographer and PhD candidate in Visual Anthropology at the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences of the Federal University of São Paulo (PPGCS-UNIFESP). Since 2008, she has worked with the community living around Omo Ilê Agboulá, a terreiro (religious center) dedicated to the worship of Egungun (ancestors), in Alto da Bela Vista, on Itaparica Island, Bahia.

  • Ana Cecília Freitas, Universidade de São Paulo

    Master's student in Social Anthropology at the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (PPGAS/USP) and holds a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the Federal Fluminense University (UFF). She is an associate researcher at the Center for Anthropology of Law at USP (NADIR) and was a member of the Center for Anthropology of Arts, Rituals and Urban Sociabilities at UFF (NARUA).

  • Gabriela Lages Gonçalves, Universidade de São Paulo

    PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (PPGAS-USP). She is a member of LEAP - Laboratory for Studies in the Anthropology of Politics (linked to UFMA) and ASA - Collective of Arts, Knowledge and Anthropology (linked to USP). Currently, she is a researcher on the Metis thematic project funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Her research focuses on materialities, heritage, race relations, and the boundaries between humans and non-humans.

  • José Batista Franco Junior, Universidade de São Paulo

    PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology of the University of São Paulo (PPGAS-USP). He holds a master's degree in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT). He has undergraduate degrees in Law and Theater (emphasis on Cultural Production) from the State University of Mato Grosso (Unemat). He is a researcher affiliated with the METIS group - Arts and Semantics of Creation and Memory (FAPESP Thematic Project) and the Center for Studies on Education, Gender, Race and Otherness (NEGRA/Unemat). His research interests include: Cosmologies, Quilombos, Territorialities and Cultural Management.

  • Lucas Marques, Universidade de São Paulo

    Postdoctoral researcher at the University of São Paulo (USP) and Fejos Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnographic Film at the Wenner-Gren Foundation. He holds a degree in Social Sciences from the University of Brasília (UnB) and a master's and doctorate in Social Anthropology from the National Museum/UFRJ. He is a researcher at the Center for Symmetrical Anthropology (NAnSi/UFRJ) and the project "Arts and semantics of creation and memory," funded by FAPESP. He conducted fieldwork in Bahia on art, religious objects, and techniques in Bahia's Candomblé, and in the Colombian South Pacific on Black communities and Afro-American spiritualities.

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2025-12-10

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D’Amato, A. S., Freitas, A. C., Gonçalves, G. L. ., Franco Junior, J. B., & Marques, L. (2025). Afro-Brazilian Cultural Heritage Network: Challenges and Potential of Collections. Cadernos De Campo (São Paulo, 1991), 34(1), e243749. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v34i1pe243749