Elisa Frühauf Garcia Talk – “The Return of the Tupinambá Cloak: Indigenous Art, Memory, and Politics”

This talk will explore the recent return of the Tupinambá cloak to Brazil and the broader questions it raises around Indigenous identity, cultural repatriation, and historical memory. Prof. Frühauf Garcia is an expert on the Indigenous peoples of Brazil. Her current research focuses on the relationships between Native women and European men in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This work connects history, cultural heritage, and different uses of the past.