“É importante respeitar o Ijá das coisas”: reflexões sobre o repatriamento de bens arqueológicos no Brasil

Abstract

This article introduces questions about repatriation of archaeological objects from Brazil and presents the project 'Atlas of Lost Finds' as an exploratory methodology to deal with symbolic restitution and open access to archaeological items that are currently invisible in foreign museums. A premise of this project is that Amazonian archaeological objects are vectors of ancestry and cosmological knowledge of indigenous peoples of the present and therefore we must listen to them about the meanings of these objects and implications for their musealization, restitution or repatriation. We then present an interview on the subject with the Guarani Nhandeva curator Sandra Benites, within the scope of the project still in progress.