Museums of Ibero-America - alterity and multivocality: a comparative study on the actions of Ibero-American anthropological museums forward proposals polyphony and interculturalism

This research project has the main objective to investigate, to analyse and to interpret comparatively two processes: musealization and been transformed to heritage of the culture with a view to (re)configure and/or strengthen an ibero- American identity. The proposal also aimed to identify how collections and / or exhibitions of a particular culture act towards intercultural communication, how these museological actions are perceived by the public. The achievement of these objectives and purposes of this study was made possible through the identification of the instruments and strategies that museums have adopted in the drafting and execution of their activities in order to promote cultural dialogue and giving voice to otherness Through the implementation of this project aimed to also contribute to the debate on the central points of scientific research today, namely: what processes were used aiming to build \"bridges between cultures\", how the anthropological science is (or can be) used as a basis for the strategies used, how the activities of these museums are apprehended by the public who visit them, and in what way the museums centre its attention on the dichotomy weothers are organized to enable cultural polyphony. (AU)