TESTIMONIES OF INTOLERANCE

THE DISSEMINATION OF THE ESTÁCIO DE LIMA COLLECTION BY MAFRO-UFBA

Abstract

This paper presents the research project “Access to and Dissemination of the Estácio de Lima Collection: The Use of Tainacan at the Afro-Brazilian Museum of the Federal University of Bahia,” which aims to make the collection available online. The Estácio de Lima Collection originated from state violence against Candomblé terreiros in the first half of the 20th century. This collection was transferred from the Estácio de Lima Museum to MAFRO-UBRA. In this regard, the general objective is to create a repository for entering information about the Estácio de Lima Collection, with the following specific objectives: to understand the existing documentation and that produced by MAFRO-UFBA regarding the collection; to collect data and information about the collection produced by the team and by other researchers; and to enter the collected data and information into the Tainacan online repository. The project’s methodology is qualitative, with an exploratory approach, using the aforementioned collection as a case study, based on bibliographic and documentary research—that is, a literature review, mapping of the institution’s and the collection’s documents, and consultation of other references to inform the understanding of the documentation produced by MAFRO-UFBA. For this presentation, the project is contextualized. The initial stages of this research related to the first specific objective are briefly presented—a preliminary analysis of existing documentation and technical visits to the Museu Afro-Brasil Emanoel Araujo and the Centro Cultural São Paulo, both located in the city of São Paulo, and to the Museu da República in Rio de Janeiro.