The film, iconographic and sound collections belonging to LISA are available for consultation on this page, at the links below.
To access the originals, a request must be sent to the email: lisa@usp.br, in advance. The service takes place on the Laboratory premises, during business hours.
Rules for consulting the collection
The Film
Collection
THE FILM COLLECTION
LISA's film collection comprises 1,954 works created since 1917. The vast majority of them are documentaries by national and foreign filmmakers, some fiction films, 115 films produced by professors and students, most of them from the USP Anthropology Department, in addition to video recordings of events organized by the same Department between 1995 and 2000. The film collection is made up of Brazilian and foreign documentaries, covering the European, South American, North American, Asian and African continents. Classic ethnographic films stand out, such as the works of Jean Rouch, David MacDougall, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Gary Kildea, Margaret Mead and John Marshall. There are also fiction films whose themes dialogue with anthropological concerns. The collection covers varied themes such as ecology, identity, housing, kinship, politics, racism, religion, ritual, violence, among others. The collection has grown annually, due to the demands of the work carried out by professors, students and researchers from the Department of Anthropology at USP. This growth results, in large part, from donations received by USP filmmakers and researchers. Film catalog sheets can be consulted remotely in the database and films watched in LISA.
Photographic
Collection
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION
LISA's iconographic collection brings together 24,500 images, including slides, negatives, photos on paper, glass plates and drawing boards. A large part of this collection corresponds to images of indigenous groups in Brazil, organized by cultural area. The collections from the beginning of the 20th century by Theodor Koch-Grünberg (between the Bará, Piratapuia and Tukano) stand out; Walter Garbe (among the Krenak); Herbert Baldus in the 1930s and 1940s (among the Karajá, Tapirapé and Guarani M’bya); Harald Schultz, in the 1940s (between the Karajá and Kaingang); Protásio Frikel, in the 1960s (between the Kayapó-Xikrin and Suyá); photographs of the Othon H. Leonardos Expedition (among the Bororo, Apinayé, Krahô, Kanela, Xerente) in the 1930s; the collection of postcards from the Salesian Mission (among the Bororo), from 1935; and Kazadi wa Mukuna's slide collection on ethnomusicology. A substantial part of the photographic collection is made up of the Lux Vidal collection, the result of his research among the Kayapó-Xikrin Indians of Pará (1969/92), in addition to images from the Assurini groups of Tocantins, Parkatejê-Gavião, Parakanã and Suyá, totaling 5,561 photographs. The set of records about the Kayapó-Xikrin (negatives, paper photos and slides) largely documents the process of body painting, as well as aspects of the group's daily life. The collection of images produced by the Centro de Trabalho Indigenista (CTI) in São Paulo is also an important part of this collection, comprising around 12,500 negatives and slides. The CTI collection, not yet available for consultation, comprises vast material on the Guarani M'bya, Kaiowá and Ñandeva groups, with which this NGO carried out work between 1978 and 2005. The LISA collection also includes photographs by the author of anthropologists from the Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo, including an important collection of images of the Xavante group, produced by Aracy Lopes da Silva (negatives, paper and slides totaling 1,300 records), and images from the collection of Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, comprising approximately 900 images (slides and paper photos), produced by the anthropologist in her research among the Krahô and Mariano Carneiro da Cunha's research in Africa. Part of the collection (paper photos) can be accessed remotely in the LISA database. The original images can be viewed on site, by appointment.
Sound
Collection
THE SOUND COLLECTION
LISA's sound collection totals around 700 hours of recordings containing a relevant set of documents from indigenous peoples in Brazil: songs, historical and mythical stories that cover the period from the 1950s to the present day. There is also Brazilian and foreign folk music, especially from the 1970s until the end of the 20th century. The events (lectures and seminars) held at the Department of Anthropology between 1995 and the beginning of the 21st century also make up this collection. Among the sound documents, the following stand out: the record collections "Viaggi tra gli indi", by Ettore Biocca (Tukano, Tariana, Baniwa, Hupd'äh people), 1966 and "Documentário Sonoro do Folclore Brasileiro", produced by MEC between 1978-81; the CD collection of the Instituto Itaú Cultural - Acervo Funarte da Música Brasileira, 1970/80; the collection "The Music of Africa Series by Hugh Tracey", featuring music from different African countries, 1960/80; and recordings made between 1950-90 of indigenous peoples in Brazil: Baniwa, Baré, Bororo, Gavião do Pará, Guarani, Karajá, Kayapó-Xikrin, Krahô, Kithaulu, Kotiria, Krikati, Kulina, Maku, Mamaindê, Nambikwara, Parakanã, Paresí , Pirá-Tapuya, Sarare, Suruí, Suyá, Tariana, Ticuna, Tiriyó, Tukano, Tuyuka, Wajãpi, Warekena, Wayana, Xavante, Xetá, Yanomami and Zo'é. The recordings, in analog and digital format, are found on different media: magnetic reel tapes, digital tapes (DAT), cassette tapes, vinyl records and CDs. From 2013 onwards, reel tapes and cassettes were digitized in the format WAV and MP3, and together with DAT tapes, total more than 500 hours of digitized audio. Part of the collection still needs to be digitized, such as vinyl records and CDs. Sound documents can be heard on site, by appointment.