Mba’ekuaa: Rethinking multimodal methods with Guarani and Kaiowá communities in Brazil
Friday 24 January 2025, 12pm
Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture Theatre
Raffaella Fryer-Moreira (University College London)
How can we produce knowledge in a time of crisis? This paper explores how anthropological knowledge methods can be rethought in partnership with research collaborators, drawing on a series of multimedia experiments co-designed together with Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous communities in Brazil. Informed by the Guarani and Kaiowá concept of Mba’ekuaa - understood as technique, technical knowledge or know-how - this paper explores how the technical practices of anthropology can be thought otherwise. Drawing on the analytic method outlined by proponents of the ontological turn in anthropology, the project aims to extend this approach to the methods and practices of research itself, examining the technical devices, collaborative relations and multimodal methods through which anthropological knowledge is produced and shared.
Pitt Rivers Museum Research Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology, Hilary Term 2025
Fridays, 12pm-1.30pm (Weeks 1-8)
In person at the Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture Theatre.
