“Three Long Rows of Empty Shelves” to Fill

Curt Nimuendajú as Collector and Researcher for Ethnological Museums in Germany, 1928-1930

Autores

  • Peter Schröder Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2019.157040

Palavras-chave:

Nimuendajú, German Ethnology, Ethnographic Collections, Ethnological Museums, Jê-speaking Peoples

Resumo

In 1928-29 and 1930, the German-Brazilian anthropologist Curt Nimuendajú was contracted twice by German ethnological institutions (above all, museums) for organizing ethnographic collections and carrying out anthropological research among indigenous peoples; principally Jê-speaking peoples in various regions of today’s Maranhão and Tocantins states in Brazil. This is not only a lesser-known part of Nimuendajú’s biography, but also an example of a kind of academic cooperation difficult to imagine nowadays. The collections, partly destroyed during World War II, are still stored in the ethnological museums of Hamburg, Leipzig, and Dresden, along with a great number of mostly unpublished letters and other documents linked to them. The history of these expeditions offers an opportunity for reflections about the implicit theories involved in contemporary collecting, fieldwork methods, and the style of anthropology practiced. The research reveals influences from German ethnology on the academic environment in Brazil, which later became increasingly independent from this input.

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Biografia do Autor

  • Peter Schröder, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
    Peter SCHRÖDER is associated professor in the graduate program for anthropology (PPGA/ Pós-Graduação em Antropologia) of the Anthropology and Museology Department (DAM/ Departamento de Antropologia e Museologia), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil. Obtaining his Dr. phil. in Ethnology from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, in 1993, he conducted post-doctoral research in southern Ceará State, Brazil, in 1995-97 and at Leipzig university, Germany, in 2010-11. His research interests are: indigenous societies in South America, development anthropology, economic anthropology, history of anthropology. He carries out research on Curt Nimuendajú’s life and work from 2009 on.

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2019-04-17

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Special Issue - German-Speaking Anthropologists in Latin-America, 1884-1945

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Schröder, P. (2019). “Three Long Rows of Empty Shelves” to Fill: Curt Nimuendajú as Collector and Researcher for Ethnological Museums in Germany, 1928-1930. Revista De Antropologia, 62(1), 212-235. https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2019.157040