O potencial da cultura material na educação museal sobre formas de violência na Amazônia

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to analyze and reflect on museum education possibilities through material culture on forms of violence for institutions in the Amazon region. In order to understand ways in which material culture can be used in Museum and/or Heritage Education activities aimed at social and political problems involving different forms of violence in the region, mainly against groups considered socially minority, involving ethnic-racial issues, of gender and sexualities. As goals to achieve this objective, I propose to understand the importance of material culture and the some possibilities in which they can become agents in educational practices in museums; map understandings of museums, museum education and violence in museums in the Amazon region, through reports by students of the Museology course at the Federal University of Pará and trained museologists who work or have worked in institutions in the region; and compare the reported practices with the notions of education present in heritage and museum charters, and also with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to understand whether these described actions, located in the Amazon region, are consistent with the guidelines aimed at maintaining of practices for the development of democracy and peace. With this, reflections on how memory and power are intrinsic elements of museums, proposals to educate about violence in a sensitive and engaged way through things and the possibility of thinking about an Amazonian Museology and a regional museum education arise.