Paper short abstract

Amazonia - the Rights of Nature began as a project to reclassify the Amazonian collections at the UBC Museum of Anthropology and became an exhibition. In this presentation I intend to share the process of this transformation

Paper long abstract

Amazonia - the Rights of Nature began as a project to reclassify the Amazonian collections at the UBC Museum of Anthropology and became an exhibition. In this presentation I intend to share the process of this transformation.

The choice of relating museum objects to the present living conditions of its producers has implied the reference to ideas of the Buen Vivir, Rights of Nature and, at a political level, of Pluri-national States. These ideas are critically relevant to the present days of no-land-treaties province of BC, as well as they enable a South - North dialogue, focusing on cultural absences and emergences to redesign the notion of global indigenous politics.

Along the presentation I will argue that, in this project, ethnography became a project of civic knowledge.