Abstract

DE JESUS, Priscila Maria. Object biography: Support for the study of material culture in the museal context. Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2020, vol.13, n.2, pp.145-152. ISSN 1852-060X.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.31048/1852.4826.v13.n2.25521.

Abstract Part of a discussion about African material culture and the biography of museal objects, having as its guiding axis a pair of weights to measure gold dust, exhibited pieces that are part of the collection of the Afro-Brazilian Museum (CEAO/UFBA/Brazil), we understand the symbolic universe of Nigerian imagery productions, especially with regard to the representations of the sexual act. Having as methodology the documentary research, through the literature survey on the subject, as well as the museological documentation of the objects, the research analyzes the symbolic universe of one of the African societies in the old Benin, where today is Nigeria, relating to the fertility rites of women, fertility of the earth and the conception of origin of life in these societies.

Keywords : Material Culture; African Arts; Object Biography; Museum.

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