The ‘Magia Negra’ collection and the ‘Terreiro Casa Branca’: (i)material culture, heritage and decoloniality

Authors

  • Sabrina Fernandes Melo Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18316/mouseion.v0i35.6424

Keywords:

Magia Negra Collection, Terreiro Casa Branca, Imaterial Culture Heritage, Decoloniality

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the heritafe policies in Brazil from the 1930s, linked to the binominal art and politics exploring mainly the collection of “Magia Negra”of the Civil Police Museum of Rio de Janeiro in 1938 and the listing of the “Terreiro Casa Branca” in 1986.The attemp is to discuss these two overturning processes, located in different temporal spaces and related to Afro-Brazilian (i)material culture and decoloniality.

Author Biography

Sabrina Fernandes Melo, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)

Doutora em História pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Professora Adjunta do Departamento de Artes Visuais da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB). Professora permanente no Programa Associado de Pós-graduação em Artes Visuais da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) João Pessoa, PB – Brasil.

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Published

2020-07-07

Issue

No. 35 (2020)

Section

Artigos / Ensaios

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