Serpents of transformation: drawings from indigenous Amazonia

• Main Author: Aristóteles Barcelos Neto
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Campinas 2016-12-01
• Series: PROA: Revista de Antropologia e Arte
• Online Access: https://www.ifch.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/proa/article/view/2932

The Gallery section of this edition of PROA brings the entirety of the images and texts of the Serpents of Transformation: Drawings from Indigenous Amazonia exhibition, which has been presented at the State University of Campinas’ Casa do Lago from 27 October to 10 November, 2016. This exhibition presented a selection of twenty-one drawings made by the Wauja Indians of the Upper Xingu in 1998, 2000 and 2004, all collected by Dr Aristoteles Barcelos Neto, from the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. The exhibition was curated and assembled during Dr Barcelos Neto’s academic visit to the State University of Campinas’ Department of Anthropology, funded by the FAPESP-Newton Fund bilateral agreement (UK Academies, United Kindgom) as part of the FAPESP Young Researcher Project entitled Transforming Amerindian Regional Systems: the Upper Xingu case, coordinated by Prof Antônio Guerreiro.