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      O que sobrou: materialidade e colonialismo numa coleção de imagens em movimento Translated title: Lo que sobró: materialidad y colonialismo en una colección de imágenes en movimiento Translated title: What remained: Materiality and colonialism in a collection of moving images

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          Resumo Adotando uma abordagem antropológica e materialista das imagens em movimento e seus arquivos, o artigo analisa a chamada “coleção colonial” da Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema para refletir sobre o seu caráter fragmentário, as hesitações classificatórias que a atravessam e as implicações que poderá ter, dentro e fora do campo arquivístico. O objetivo do artigo é ir para lá das questões de representação, imaginário e propaganda que têm dominado o estudo das imagens coloniais, e questionar algumas ideias adquiridas, já que os fragmentos que sobraram da relação entre o cinema e as colônias portuguesas sugerem um projeto de dominação cauteloso, errático ou até indiferente em relação ao dispositivo cinematográfico. O artigo explora algumas das lições materiais do arquivo, sublinhando a necessidade de se complementarem futuros (e necessários) estudos empíricos com o aprofundamento dos avanços teóricos sugeridos.

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          Resumen Adoptando un enfoque antropológico y materialista de las imágenes en movimiento y sus archivos, el presente artículo analiza la llamada “colección colonial” de la Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museo del Cine para reflexionar sobre su carácter fragmentario, las dudas de clasificación que la atraviesan y las implicaciones que puede entrañar dentro y fuera del campo archivístico. El objetivo de este trabajo es ir más allá de las cuestiones de representación, imaginario y propaganda que han dominado el estudio de las imágenes coloniales, y cuestionar algunas ideas generalmente asumidas, ya que los fragmentos sobrantes de la relación entre el cine y las colonias portuguesas sugieren un proyecto de dominación cautelosa, errática o incluso indiferente en relación con el dispositivo cinematográfico. El artículo explora algunas de las lecciones materiales del archivo, subrayando la necesidad de complementar futuros (y necesarios) estudios empíricos con la profundización en los avances teóricos sugeridos.

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          Abstract Adopting an anthropologically-informed materialist approach to moving images and their archives, the article analyses the so-called “colonial collection” of the Portuguese Film Museum. It reflects on its fragmentary condition, the classificatory hesitations that permeate it and the implications it may have, within and without the archival field. The aim is to move beyond issues of representation, imaginary and propaganda that have dominated the study of colonial images, and hence to question received ideas. What the fragments that have outlasted the relationship between cinema and the Portuguese colonies suggests is a project of domination that was cautious, erratic or even indifferent towards the cinematic apparatus. The article also explores some of the archive’s material lessons, calling for the combination of much-needed empirical work with further theorization along the proposed lines.

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              Tempo imperfeito: uma etnografia do arquivo

              Nesse artigo, os arquivos etnográficos e seu duplo, os arquivos pessoais, são concebidos como construções culturais cuja compreensão é fundamental para entendermos como certas narrativas profissionais foram produzidas e como sua invenção resulta de um intenso diálogo envolvendo imaginação e autoridade intelectual. Tendo a coleção Ruth Landes Papers mantida pelo National Anthropological Archives (Smithsonian Institutian) como objeto de análise, o texto propõe uma reflexão acerca das lógicas que orientam a instituição dos limites temáticos dos arquivos, seus critérios de legitimidade e inclusão, a transformação de instrumentos de trabalho de seus titulares em "artefatos", "documentos" e "fontes"; suas concepções de "valor documental", sua economia interna e seus usos na contínua (ainda que diversa) reificação da autoridade de seus "titulares" como personagens de diferentes histórias da antropologia. In this article, ethnographic archives and their doubles, personal archives, are analyzed as cultural constructions whose comprehension is essential to understanding the ways in which professional narratives are produced and how their invention results from an intense dialogue involving imagination and intellectual authority. Taking the Ruth Landes Papers kept by the National Anthropological Archives (Smithsonian Institution) as its object of analysis, the text examines the various logics informing the institution of thematic limits to the archives, their criteria for legitimacy and inclusion, the transformation of their author's work instruments into 'artefacts,' 'documents' and 'sources;' their conceptions of 'documentary value,' their internal economy and their uses in the continual (if shifting) reification of the authority of their 'authors' as key figures within anthropology's different histories.
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                Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social - PPGAS-Museu Nacional, da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil )
                0104-9313
                December 2018
                : 24
                : 3
                : 247-276
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                [1] Lisboa orgnameInstituto Universitário de Lisboa orgdiv1Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia Portugal
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                S0104-93132018000300247
                10.1590/1678-49442018v24n3p247
                35aedb13-abd5-4a52-bbd0-f458ab798ec0

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                : 02 May 2018
                : 30 October 2018
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                Archive,Imagens em movimento,Materialidade,Colonialismo,Portugal (1908-75),Colonialism,Materiality,Moving images,Portugal (1908-1975),Materialidad,Imágenes en movimiento,Archivo,Arquivo

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