ABSTRACT
This article analyses the documentary practices of the Instituto Brasileiro de Educação, Ciência e Cultura (IBECC), taking as a case study some actions of its Technical Commission of Folklore between 1947 and 1951. To this end, it investigates the institutionalization of a network of intellectuals in Brazil who defended a scientific perspective of Folklore, stimulated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). From a qualitative research, based on literature review and documentary analysis, it analyses how this network produced an infopolitics of collections. Likewise, it shows how it mobilized material culture and documentary practices to autonomize the field of Folklore in Brazil in the early years of the Technical Commission of Folklore.
KEYWORDS:
Folklore; UNESCO; Collections; Documentary Practices; Information