ABSTRACT During his expedition to the rivers Rio Negro and Japurá between 1903 and 1905, the German ethnologist Theodor Koch-Grünberg amassed an ethnographic collection. Part of it he sold to the Royal Museum of Ethnology in Berlin and a smaller part was purchased by the Swiss naturalist Emílio Goeldi for the Museu Paraense in Belém, in northern Brazil. A number of aspects arise from this singular transaction: research funding (including institutional and personal relations) at the beginning of the institutionalisation of anthropology; the importance of German speaking intellectuals to the development of natural sciences and ethnography of Brazil; the social and economic importance of collecting and the complexity of local political relations. The aim of this article is to analyze the social context in which this collection was formed, with special attention to the indigenous agency and social relations around material culture. It seeks to contribute to the history of collections, the history of science in Brazil and of the transatlantic relations between Brazilian museums and German ethnology.

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从柏林到贝伦：Theodor Koch-Grünberg 的 Rio Negro 系列

摘要 在 1903 年至 1905 年间，德国民族学家西奥多·科赫-格伦伯格 (Theodor Koch-Grünberg) 远征 Rio Negro 和 Japurá 河时，他收集了一份民族志收藏。他的一部分卖给了柏林的皇家民族学博物馆，一小部分被瑞士博物学家 Emílio Goeldi 为巴西北部贝伦的 Museu Paraense 购买。这一单一交易产生了许多方面：人类学制度化初期的研究经费（包括制度和个人关系）；德语知识分子对巴西自然科学和民族志发展的重要性；收集的社会和经济重要性以及地方政治关系的复杂性。这篇文章的目的是分析这个收藏品形成的社会背景，特别关注围绕物质文化的土著机构和社会关系。它旨在为收藏史、巴西科学史以及巴西博物馆与德国民族学之间的跨大西洋关系做出贡献。