Ocara: The Awakening of Tupinamba Objects and the Revival of Museums

This research aims to facilitate and integrate the circulation of Tupinamba objects, knowledge and forms of presence, both historical and contemporary, within the institutional network of museums, laboratories and creative spaces. It accompanies, at both scientific and cultural levels, a process of museum transformation and hybridisation, based on an already established collaboration and an intense intercultural dialogue around Tupinamba objects, particularly the clubs preserved in French museums and academic institutions.

However, this process struggles to fit within current frameworks of research and museum practice, despite the growing interest in decolonial perspectives.

• Brigitte Thierion