Aristoteles Barcelos Neto
- Aristoteles Barcelos NetoSenior Lecturer in the Arts of the Americas
- EmailA.Barcelos-Neto@uea.ac.uk
- Tel0044 (0)1603 593646
- Academic background Visiting Scholar (2007, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, Collège de France) Post-Doctoral Fellow (2004 - 2006, Universidade de São Paulo) PhD in Social Anthropology (2004, Universidade de São Paulo) MPhil in Social Anthropology (1999, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) BA in Museology (1996, Universidade Federal da Bahia)
- General Research Interests Anthropology of South American Indians, Anthropology of Art, Ritual and Cosmology, Museum Anthropology, Ethnographic Collections
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Academic Profile
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Dr Barcelos Neto is a museologist and anthropologist specialized in the arts, rituals and cosmologies of South American Indians. He has created ethnographic collections for museums in Brazil, Portugal, France and Germany. Produced and directed, with the Wauja Indians of the Upper Xingu, the show La Danse des Grands Masques Amazonian for the Festival International de Radio France, and several ethnographic films in the Peruvian Andes and Amazonia.
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Current project
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Upper Xingu material culture in the past, present and future: collaborative documentation of a multiethnic tradition in Brazilian Amazonia. Funded by the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme, British Museum
This project focuses on the documentation of ceramics and woven artefacts in the Upper Xingu region, in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The Upper Xingu is a plurilingual and multi-ethnic regional system. The project will work with the Carib-speaking Kuikuro and the Arawak-speaking Wauja. Its three main goals are to: a) support local people in researching and documenting their material culture both in the village and in museums; b) create a digital database on material culture, past and present, as a durable instrument for safeguarding knowledge; c) revalorise and stimulate the transmission of this knowledge between generations. The major aim is not to make another collection, physical or virtual, but to serve as a spark capable of realigning the local chain of cultural knowledge transmission, which is endangered by the invasion of commodities. The project team has over twenty years of experience in research, documentation and shared cultural production in the region. It works with new technologies of memory as a means to engage the younger generation in projects, making youngsters simultaneously the agents of the documentation, and the recipients of the documented knowledge. This process rejuvenates the chain of transmission, and attributes new social value to both the old masters and the young indigenous researchers.
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Selected Publications
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Books
2008 Apapaatai: rituais de máscaras no Alto Xingu. São Paulo: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, 310p. Foreword by Michael Heckenberger.
2004 Visiting the Wauja Indians: Masks and Other Living Objects from an Amazonian Collection. Lisbon: Museu Nacional de Etnologia, 126p. Foreword by Joaquim Pais de Brito.
2002 A arte dos sonhos: uma iconografia ameríndia. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim/Museu Nacional de Etnologia, 276p. Foreword by Elsje Maria Lagrou.
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Articles and Chapters
2018 Tobacco visions: shamanic drawings of the Wauja Indians. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi - Ciências Humanas, 13(3): 501-517.
2012 A origem da arte e o gosto estético entre os Wauja do Alto Xingu. In Marcos de Camargo Von Zuben et al. (orgs.). Sujeito, saberes e práticas sociais. Mossoró: Editora da UERN, pp. 89-136. [download PDF book].
2012 Objetos de poder, pessoas de prestígio: a temporalidade biográfica dos rituais xinguanos e a cosmopolítica wauja. Mundo Amazônico 3: 17-42, Leticia-Bogotá. Edited by Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
2011 A serpente de corpo repleto de canções: um tema amazônico sobre a arte do trançado. Revista de Antropologia, 54(2): 981-1012. São Paulo.
2011 Le réveil des grands masques du Haut-Xingu: Iconographie et transformation. In Jean-Pierre Goulard & Dimitri Karadimas (eds.), Masques des hommes, visages des dieux. Paris: CNRS Éditions, pp. 27-52.
2009. The (de)animalization of objects: food offerings and the subjectivization of masks and flutes among the Wauja of Southern Amazonia. In: The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood, Fernando Santos-Granero (ed.). Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 128-151.
2008 Choses (in)visibles et (im)périssable: temporalité et matérialité des objets rituels dans les Andes et en Amazonie. Gradhiva - Revue d’Anthropologie et Museologie, 8 (n.s): 112-129, Paris.
2007 Witsixuki: desejo, doença e morte entre os Wauja da Amazônia Meridional. Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 93(1-2), Paris.
2006 De divinações xamânicas e acusações de feitiçaria: imagens wauja da agência letal. Mana - Estudos de Antropologia Social, 12(2): 285-313, Rio de Janeiro.
2006 Des villages indigènes aux musées d’anthropologie: de la propriété et vente des objets rituels amazoniens. Gradhiva - Revue d’Anthropologie et Museologie, 4 (n.s): 87-95, Paris.
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Ethnographic Film
2012. Holy Week in the Andes / Semana Santa en los Andes. Digital video, 44min. São Paulo: Laboratório de Imagem e Som em Antropologia/USP. Subtitles in English.
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2011. Reeds: Scarcity and Abundance. Digital video, 11min. São Paulo: Laboratório de Imagem e Som em Antropologia/USP. Subtitles in English.
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2007 Apapaatai. Digital video, 17min. São Paulo: Laboratório de Imagem e Som em Antropologia/USP. Subtitles in English.
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2006 Cruces Vivas, Cruces Protectoras / Living and Protective Crosses. Digital video, 28min. São Paulo: Laboratório de Imagem e Som em Antropologia/USP.
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2006 Wauja: a dança das grandes máscaras amazônicas / Wauja: dance of the Amazonian giant masks. Digital video, 28min. São Paulo: Laboratório de Imagem e Som em Antropologia/USP.
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2005 El Terremoto y el Señor / The Earthquake and the Lord. Digital video, 38min. São Paulo: Laboratório de Imagem e Som em Antropologia/USP.
A jaguar spirit being fed by a Wauja shaman. Amazonia, August 2000. © Barcelos Neto
Teaching
UG Module - Introduction to Anthropology
UG Module - Art, Religion and Ritual in Native South America
UG Module - The Anthropology of Amazonian and Andean Arts and Music
MA Module - The Arts of the Americas
MA Module - Museum Anthropology
Wauja ceramic pot. Amazonia, June 2000. © Barcelos Neto
Wauja flautists and female dancers. Amazonia, August 2001. © Barcelos Neto