“Living Libraries: Documenting Endangered Munduruku Materiality, Brazilian Amazonia” aims to produce audiovisual, cartographic, illustrated and written documentation of elements of Munduruku material culture that have been elected by the Munduruku people themselves. The Munduruku Wakoborun Women’s organisation is a partner to the project.
We aim to undertake four field expeditions to visit villages where specialists and elders live, and where the elements we wish to document are still in use or are kept. Prior to the first field trip, we will conduct an audiovisual training workshop for Munduruku research assistants.
The project will focus on components of Munduruku material culture that relate to their cosmology and social organisation: the men’s house (uk’sa); sacred flutes; ceramics and the practice of tattooing. The project aims to involve a number of Munduruku researchers and specialists not only as interviewees but also in the documentation process, as consultants and translators and in the video editing process.
Missão Cururú village, Munduruku Indigenous Land. Photo: Maurício Torres
Munduruku warrior at 4th Pusuruduk meeting, Waro Apompu village, Munduruku Indigenous Land, November 2019. Photo: Rosamaria Loures
Munduruku hearth at Waro Apompu village, Munduruku Indigenous Land. Photo: Rosamaria Loures
Internal Munduruku kitchen, Waro Apompu village, Munduruku Indigenous Land, November 2019. Photo: Rosamaria Loures
Flooded igapó forest in Munduruku Indigenous Land. Photo: Maurício Torres
Aerial view Sawre Muybu village. Photo: Bruna Rocha
Men at Munduruku assembly, Munduruku Indigenous Land. Image: Vitor Flynn Paciornik
Munduruku warriors, women and children greet visitors at the Cururu village, Munduruku Indigenous Land. Photo: Maurício Torres
Munduruku woman bathes in stream. Photo: Maurício Torres
Munduruku dance during assembly at the Missão Cururu village. Photo: Maurício Torres
Geometric motif painted with genipapo. Photo: Maurício Torres
Munduruku woman at assembly in the Missão Cururu village, Munduruku Indigenous Land. Photo: Maurício Torres
Archaeological pottery displaying motif also used in tattoos. Photo: Vinicius Honorato de Oliveira
Restinga village, Munduruku Indigenous Land. Ipereg Ayu Movement assembly, November 2013. Photo: Rosamaria Loures
Restinga village, Munduruku Indigenous Land. Ipereg Ayu Movement assembly, November 2013. Photo: Rosamaria Loures
Path to nearby stream at Sawre Muybu village, Sawre Muybu Indigenous Land. Photo: Bruna Rocha
PI:
Bruna Rocha
Collaborators:
Fernanda Cristina Moreira
Rosamaria Santana Paes Loures
Thaís Borges
Location of Research:
Brazilian Amazonia
Host Institution:
The National Museum in Rio de Janeiro
Fernanda Moreira Biography
Rosamaria Loures Biography
Top Banner Image: Mangabal rapids, Tapajós River. Photo: Morgan Schmidt
