Heritage Sites
How Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Communities Leverage Archaeology and Architecture to Protect Their Histories and Challenge the Hegemonic Heritage Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16966866 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Camilla Querin (0000-0001-6816-4659, University of California System, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 82-91 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2576-0947 • E-ISSN: 2576-0947 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/lavc.2020.210007 |
| OpenAlex | W3011315629 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Research Article| January 01 2020 Heritage Sites: How Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Communities Leverage Archaeology and Architecture to Protect Their Histories and Challenge the Hegemonic Heritage Discourse Camilla Querin Camilla Querin University of California Camilla Querin is a research assistant at the Getty Research Institute, a doctoral candidate in the history of art at the University of California, Riverside, and a curatorial fellow at the California Museum of Photography. Her dissertation investigates the artistic production and curatorial practices developed during the military dictatorship in Brazil. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2020) 2 (1): 82–91. https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2020.210007 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Camilla Querin; Heritage Sites: How Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Communities Leverage Archaeology and Architecture to Protect Their Histories and Challenge the Hegemonic Heritage Discourse. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 1 January 2020; 2 (1): 82–91. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2020.210007 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentLatin American and Latinx Visual Culture Search During the construction for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, an archaeological site of tremendous importance resurfaced: the Cais do Valongo (Valongo Wharf), main port of entry of enslaved African people to the Americas. Between 1811, the year of its construction, through the two decades of its operation, around a million Africans walked across the Cais do Valongo's paved ground before being subjugated to the gruesome process of having their bodies exchanged for money. Exactly two centuries after its construction, in 2011, the buried wharf reemerged as a physical testimony of a history that is never again to be forgotten. That same year, the state government of Rio de Janeiro attempted to demolish the old Museu do Índio (Museum of the Indian), a nineteenth-century building that has traditionally been a site for the discussion, promotion, and protection of Brazilian Indigenous cultures. Abandoned in 1978 when the museum was transferred to... You do not currently have access to this content
Archaeology · Art · Citation · Hegemony · Icon · Indigenous · Library science · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Public Spaces through Art · Architecture
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |