Estudando a cerâmica pintada da tradição Tupiguarani: a coleção Itapiranga, Santa Catarina

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Kelly de
• Orientador(a): Santos, Maria Cristina dos
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: TUPIGUARANI - ARQUEOLOGIA; REGIONALISMO - RIO GRANDE DO SUL; COMUNICAÇÃO VISUAL; CERÂMICA - HISTÓRIA; ARTES DECORATIVAS; CULTURA
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/3775

The present dissertation shows the study of a painted ceramic collection related to the Tupiguarani archaeological tradition, proceeding from Itapiranga region, SC. The aim of this research is to demonstrate, from the analysis of ceramic decoration, that the normative way by which the decorative motifs are designed can indicate the existence of a cultural tradition that represents its tendency to prescriptivity but, however, this cultural tradition is not too rigid, being performative in certain occasions. Therein, the study of material culture can be a good indicator in order to verify this possibility. In such case, the decorative motifs of painted ceramic from this collection have been compared to two other collections, from Florianópolis, SC and Candelária, RS. The comparisons demonstrated that beyond the similarities, some subtle variations appear in the design of the motifs. In this way, there is a possibility that these variations represent ethnic partialities by groups of a same cultural tradition, regionally separated. To express this, we used in this study the term “cultural regionalism”. However, in order to point out these cultural regionalisms it is necessary, previously, to understand how the artistic manifestation works within indigenous societies, throughout the relationships between indigenous community and art. It is believed that it is possible to relate the art of manufacturing and decorating ceramics as a type of non verbal communication, or a visual iconographic language, capable to inform about how society think, act and understand the world around itself.