ABSTRACT
This article intends on highlighting the Amerindian representations elaborated in museums and based on the objects that reified certain images that circulate until the present day. If, in the nineteenth century, the inhabitants of America were represented as extinct, on the verge of extinction or with visible signs of degeneracy, in a historical turnaround during the twenty-first century, the Amerindian populations created their own representations and objects, appropriating museums as spaces of mobilization for rights and reconstruction of their own trajectories, struggles, memories and identities.
KEYWORDS:
Amerindians; Representations; Museums; Ethnographic objects; Indigenous museums
