Museums in Brazilian urban periphery

Abstract Nowadays, in Brazil, community initiatives in urban centers express their social and cultural values through museological processes. The main objective in this article is to investigate museums and cities as anthropological ethnographic fields, when identifying these processes in low income neighborhoods of Brazilian urban centers. The study is applied to the Pilot-project for the Memory Points Program, linked to the Brazilian Institute of Museums, based on the ethnographic experience with the Ponto de Memória da Terra Firme, a community initiative that develops a museological process in the neighborhood of Terra Firme in Belém, Pará. After analyzing strategies and relations established due to the consolidation of the Memory Points, it is concluded that these museological processes derive from a political will to register social memory through the appropriation of cultural heritages recognized by its residents, thus consolidating in community museums.摘要 如今在巴西，城市中心的社区倡议通过博物馆化（museological）流程彰显其社会与文化价值。本文的核心研究目标为，在识别巴西城市中心低收入社区内的此类博物馆化流程之际，将博物馆与城市视作人类学民族志场域展开探究。本研究依托与巴西博物馆学会（Brazilian Institute of Museums）关联的「记忆点计划」（Memory Points Program）试点项目，结合针对帕拉州贝伦市特拉菲梅社区的「特拉菲梅记忆点」（Ponto de Memória da Terra Firme）——一项在该社区开展博物馆化实践的社区倡议——所积累的民族志调研经验展开。在分析记忆点项目成型过程中建立的各项策略与社会关系后，本研究得出结论：此类博物馆化流程源自一项政治意愿，即通过取用居民所认可的文化遗产来记录社会记忆，并最终固化为社区博物馆。