Cristiana Barreto is an archaeologist, curator, and associate professor at Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Amazon, Brazil. Her research interests focus on the study of archaeological collections, ceramic iconography, figurines, body representation and cultural identity in precolonial Amazonia. She has curated exhibitions about Amazonian art and has recently published on the variability of how human and other-than-human bodies were conceived and represented in clay, their agency and ritual performances. She is also involved in research projects to protect and decolonize the Amazon biocultural heritage and collections. Among the books she has edited with colleagues are Unknown Amazon (2001), Cerâmicas Arqueológicas da Amazônia (2014), and Koriabo – from the Caribbean Sea to the Amazon River (2021).
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