Thirteenth International Conference on The Arts in Society

Abstract

The anthropophagy culture is a concept started in Brazil, in 1928, and spread out by anthropology and museum studies to enhance a theory about the appropriation of the geographical and political context in order to decolonize their structures from the classical and traditional conception of the role of art in the museum institutions and society. The present research -made for the MA in Museum Studies and Heritage Management to the Universidad Nacional de Colombia- features a new perspective of this concept advocated to folk art and ethnography museums, which have been changing their narratives to introduce art in order to construe new brand of history and theoretical problems into their curatorial scripts.