Curadoria técnica de museus: considerações sobre a documentação das joias em metal africanas do Museu Afro-Brasileiro/Ufba

Abstract

This monograph argues over procedures of technical curatorship in museums, specifically registration, interrogating the institutional file records whose purpose it is to identify the museological object, representing it through information fields – metadata – like names; typology; origin; function; material; technique; and authorship. In order to achieve this, the starting point is a set of 29 metalpieces, among bracelets and anklets, from Benin and Togo, within the African Collection of the AfroBrazilian Museum/Federal University at Bahia (Mafro/Ufba), made up by the French photoetnographer Pierre Verger. Then is recovered a part of the histories of ethnographic museums, circulation of metallurgical artifacts between Africa x Europe x America and the ways of elaborate registration, adjacent to the account of artifacts’ dossiers, intending to approach the names and categories that were attributed to it. Considering the metadata fundamental to the development of processes of interpretation and use of objects in museum environments, in particular those from the order of communication field, was done this case study, based in documental analysis and exploratory bibliographic research, under the hypothesis that, during the agencies that have arranged Mafro/Ufba and its documental procedures, were constituted and reproduced fallacious regimens of truth that reinforces the stereotyped imaginary of Africas and their Diasporas.