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- Current challenges for african cultural heritage: a case study of Guinea-BissauPublication . Temudo, AnaThe restitution of cultural heritage to countries of origin has occupied the recent international political agenda. This article analyses the different perspectives from which this question has been approached, in Portugal and abroad, namely in the legislative field governing heritage institutions, in the academic field and in the public sphere. This analysis aims to understand the current meanings attributed to African heritage in museums and other Western heritage institutions, as well as in the countries of origin. As a case study it presents the heritage reality of Guinea-Bissau and indicates different possibilities for a fair representation of today’s diasporic communities, aiming to contribute to an informed debate on the impact of the return and relocation of African heritage to their countries of origin on future representations of African culture and identity on a global scale.
- Entrevista com Hugues de VarinePublication . Gago, Ana; Temudo, Ana
- Júlio Resende: a self-curating artistPublication . Temudo, Ana; Castro, LauraThis article focus on the curatorial work involved in the construction of places of memorylike a photobiography or an artistic foundation. Despite being iniciatives of differentnature and scope, both examples aim to keep alive the memory of those who built them.The article explores the production of the photobiography that occupied Júlio Resendefor several years and that would be edited posthumously, and addresses the life andwork of an artist (1917-2011) who wanted to shape how he would be remembered, aself-curating artist.
- Património para todos notas introdutóriasPublication . Gago, Ana; Temudo, Ana
- Performing arts and rurality: the search for the spirit of the territoryPublication . Temudo, AnaThis article is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a Portuguese community located in northern Portugal that shares its daily life with a theatre company. This research is theoretically grounded in the intersection between cultural heritage and memory studies that are used as pillars to capture the spirit of this territory. By gathering in their leisure time around theatre and other artistic experiences, this group of people activates a sense of belonging to the community through the sharing of practices and knowledge. The episodes described in this article were captured over two years through a series of interviews and participatory activities. The activities performed were videotaped and, as a whole, take part in a larger project aimed at building a virtual museum. More than an archive or repository composed of material objects of this theatre company, this museum experience is built from a collection of memories of this diverse inter-municipal community that coexists daily with artistic experiences that aggregate and challenge the sensibility of the population.
- The lives and deaths of an ethnographic museum: history, violence and curatorial collaborations in Guinea-BissauPublication . Sarró, Ramon; Temudo, AnaThis article discusses the history of the National Ethnographic Museum of Guinea-Bissau (West Africa), which was created in 1988, but ceased to exist because of the civil war in 1998-99. It also tells the history of a 2017 exhibition about the museum that we curated around a collection of contact prints kept in the National Directorate of Culture of Bissau that we were able to digitally reconstruct, which serendipitously led to the museum’s rebirth. Methodologically, the article illustrates the potential of photography in museum historiography and revitalization. Thematically, it exemplifies the history of museography in West Africa from the mid-1980s through the 1990s, the role of museums in the creation of national heritage, and, by looking at the present situation of the museum at stake, the fragile place that ethnographic museums have in the politics of culture in today’s Africa.
- Victor Bandeira and the collections of the National Museum of Ethnology: notes from fieldworkPublication . Temudo, AnaDecolonisation has become a significant topic in contemporary museum and heritage studies. The research project “Representational Politics of Guinean Heritage in Portuguese Museums in the Transition from Colonial to Postcolonial Period: Histories, Transits and Discourses” discusses the meaning and value of the Guinea-Bissau heritage collected during the colonial era that is part of Portuguese museum collections. This essay focus on a documentary about Victor Bandeira (1931-), as part of the PhD research project. Bandeira is a collector that established an informal relationship with the National Museum of Ethnology (former Overseas Museum of Ethnology), in Lisbon, from the mid-1960s onwards, collecting a representative part of the museum’s nonEuropean collections. He remains a living witness to this museum’s beginning years and can be considered a vital component of the museum’s history. Bandeira has been an object of enquiry in previous studies. However, there was missing an audio-visual perspective or, as the anthropologist Sarah Pink describes – a visual and sensorial ethnographic approach. This short article explores, from fieldwork observations, the relationship between two interdependent biographies: Victor Bandeira and the National Museum of Ethnography, reflecting on the data gathered and the experience of interviewing Bandeira, contributing to review past collecting practices and the museum’s history.