Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her research focuses the production of textual and visual artefacts, archives, and modernist ethnographies. She also has been carrying on research on the Cottica Ndyuka in Eastern Suriname.

• List of IlustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: In/Out of ArchivesPart 1: Memorabilia1 Unrestricted Gifts2 Becoming Brujo3 On Laundresses, Sergeants, and Assistants: the Arts of the Forgetting4 JanusPart 2: Mobile Objects5 Tracings 6 Paper VoyagesPart 3: Remakings7 Ruth’s Books: Creating Additional Lives8 Many Words Do Not Fill a Basket9 Transformed ThingsArchives and Acronyms Bibliography Index

“Few, if any, have spanned the entirety of this midcentury intellectual output and critically analyzed it with a consistent methodological approach. This book does so, and what emerges, over the course of 668 pages, is a concurrent excavation and questioning of AfroLatin America as a category of analysis.” - Alejandra Bronfman, SUNY Albany, Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 102.1 (2022).

Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her research focuses the production of textual and visual artefacts, archives, and modernist ethnographies. She also has been carrying on research on the Cottica Ndyuka in Eastern Suriname.

• List of IlustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: In/Out of ArchivesPart 1: Memorabilia1 Unrestricted Gifts2 Becoming Brujo3 On Laundresses, Sergeants, and Assistants: the Arts of the Forgetting4 JanusPart 2: Mobile Objects5 Tracings 6 Paper VoyagesPart 3: Remakings7 Ruth’s Books: Creating Additional Lives8 Many Words Do Not Fill a Basket9 Transformed ThingsArchives and Acronyms Bibliography Index

“Few, if any, have spanned the entirety of this midcentury intellectual output and critically analyzed it with a consistent methodological approach. This book does so, and what emerges, over the course of 668 pages, is a concurrent excavation and questioning of AfroLatin America as a category of analysis.” - Alejandra Bronfman, SUNY Albany, Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 102.1 (2022).

Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her research focuses the production of textual and visual artefacts, archives, and modernist ethnographies. She also has been carrying on research on the Cottica Ndyuka in Eastern Suriname.

• List of IlustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: In/Out of ArchivesPart 1: Memorabilia1 Unrestricted Gifts2 Becoming Brujo3 On Laundresses, Sergeants, and Assistants: the Arts of the Forgetting4 JanusPart 2: Mobile Objects5 Tracings 6 Paper VoyagesPart 3: Remakings7 Ruth’s Books: Creating Additional Lives8 Many Words Do Not Fill a Basket9 Transformed ThingsArchives and Acronyms Bibliography Index

“Few, if any, have spanned the entirety of this midcentury intellectual output and critically analyzed it with a consistent methodological approach. This book does so, and what emerges, over the course of 668 pages, is a concurrent excavation and questioning of AfroLatin America as a category of analysis.” - Alejandra Bronfman, SUNY Albany, Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 102.1 (2022).