A tradição (arqueológica) Itaparica: a materialidade textual e a semantização dos objetos

Abstract

The Itaparica Tradition, a Brazilian prehistoric hunter-gatherer tradition, war first documented in 1969 as a lithic industry of flaked instruments by the archaeologist Valentin Calderón. Through out the cognizance process of the objects of this preterit culture, laboratorial praxis and the praxis of the elaboration of an archaeological text competed with the praxis of museological exhibitions. In the present work we attempt, on one hand, to explicit the scientific production by the materiality of the archaeological text as an enunciation of this tradition. On the other hand, the exhibit of material culture in the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (MAE) of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), establishes a boundary of cultural differentness using archaeological objects. We consider that within these two means (text and exhibit), a semiotic process is established, which affirms meaning to the objects in the scientific realm, and communication with the public in general.