Experiências etnográficas de Harald Schultz e Vilma Chiara entre os povos indígenas

Abstract

This dissertation proposes an ethnography of the trajectory traced by Harald Schultz and Vilma Chiara throughout their ethnographic experiences with several Brazilian indigenous people. Thus, based on anthropological theory, I revisit both itineraries to analyze the stories lived by them, since the study object of this research are plots and processes. In these plots and life histories, the emerging contexts of anthropology in Brazil were constituted by researchers as the ethnologist highlighted in this study. The paths reveal established contexts and meanings that produced images of them as ethnologists and images of the other, the documented people, their ethnographic experiences in their multiple forms and inventions considering points of view from different subjects involved. The methodology is based on anthropological reflection concerning the studies of the history of anthropology in and from Brazil, articulated with the field of visual anthropology and indigenous politics considering that Schultz has produced a large collection of ethnographical photos and videos during his research journeys and that the beginning of them is set in the context of the Indian Protection Service (SPI). In another moment, I dedicate myself to analyze the ethnographic data built through the interlocutions with Vilma Chiara and research in three museums spaces in the country: Museu do Índio- RJ/Funai, Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of USP, Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of the UFPR. The three museums have a large ethnographic collection of both ethnologists research. In this arrangement of visual production and travel narratives, there is the need to examine documents, statements and expressions in addition to the official marks. There is a room in this analysis for the dissonance, the expressions and the memories in such a way that hinders the identification of connections, even if partial, full of new possibilities about the ethnographic experience.