Collaborative curation of Kuikuro collections: the AIKAX Portal

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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper describes the development and implementation of the AIKAX Portal, a digital database that consolidates the data of more than three decades of ethnographic and archaeological research and collections among the Kuikuro indigenous people of the Upper Xingu. The Xingu Indigenous Territory (TIX) encompasses 20,000 km2 in the southern portion of Amazonia in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. As part of the Kuikuro Ethnoarchaeological Project of the Upper Xingu, we have been conducting participatory mapping of cultural heritage and interdisciplinary archaeological research in this region in collaboration with the Kuikuro people. It is the longest-running collaborative research project with indigenous peoples in Brazil and is considered a reference in this field. The AIKAX Portal arose from the need to integrate, make accessible, and return to indigenous peoples research data scattered across various institutions and frequently inaccessible to indigenous peoples, who are the primary owners of these collections. This is a direct requirement of the Kuikuro. The database and its derivatives—catalogs and story maps—serve as a shared resource for the online socialization of Kuikuro's culture if they so choose.

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• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39672.0