Title: As coleções etnográficas guarani do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE/USP)
Abstract: This master's thesis presents an organized catalog of Guarani artifacts that are currently in the technical reserve of the Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo, from the Paulista Museum (MP) and the Plinio Ayrosa Collection (APA).The main objective is to enable the dissemination of ethnographic collections to the Guarani, collected in different villages and periods, by various collectors.With this, it is intended not only to reconstruct the "biography of the object", but also to provide data to add to the historical trajectories of the Guarani groups.However, the elaboration of the Catalog precludes an investigation into Amerindian representations made in museums and based on objects, which have reified certain images in circulation to 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 the twenty-first century, in a historical turnaround, the Amerindian peoples created their own representations and objects, appropriating museums as spaces of mobilization for rights and reconstruction of their own trajectories, struggles, memories and identities.