For an ethnography of archives and museums

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.5583382310106

• Palavras-chave: ethnography; files; museums.

• Keywords: ethnography; files; museums.

• Abstract:

  Given the possibilities that the title refers to, it seems prudent to explain that this article aims to problematize what ethnography is in “archives” and “museums” and, in parallel, explore contemporary ethnographic practices. Finally, I will seek to debate, in a prospective way, ongoing modalities of ethnographic exploration of objects susceptible to being considered “in archive mode”. The proposed path involves an initial tour of the archive of ethnographic practices; then follow some of their divergent trajectories, which lead to the incorporation of “archives” as their objects and try, from there, to outline a kind of state of the art regarding this relationship between practices – that is – between the ethnographic practice of archiving and of museum.