Indigenous Peoples in Amazonia: Art to Explain the World?

As part of the lecture series Society & Culture – Sociology
in cooperation with the Austrian Latin America Institute (LAI)

The many and very different cultures of the peoples of the Amazon region in South America have one thing in common: their art serves to explain a world that should endure for all living beings. An aesthetic principle that connects people with the biological and spiritual environment and obliges us all to fight against its destruction. Can we take up this challenge and what possibilities do we have to realise a common strategy based on the knowledge and practices of the Amazonians?

Moderator: Claudia Augustat, PhD in cultural anthropology, has been head of the South America Collection at the Weltmuseum Wien since 2004. Augustat researches material culture and cultural memory, museums and colonialism as well as the decolonisation of museum practice.

Dr Georg Grünberg, ethnologist, born in Vienna in 1943, studied in Vienna and São Paulo, research and teaching in Latin America (Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico, Nicaragua and Guatemala), consultant for international cooperation and development research, former lecturer at the University of Vienna.

As part of the Science Talks in cooperation with the Austrian Latin America Institute (LAI), topics relating to the situation of indigenous groups in Brazil will be addressed and explored in greater depth.
Further information on the exhibition (Un)Known Artists of the Amazon

Duration: 90 minutes / 1.5 units
Participation: free
Booking: kulturvermittlung@weltmuseumwien.at
Further information: https://www.vhs.at/de/k/566697443  (course no. VA240018)
Meeting point: Weltmuseum Wien zam