Un historiador argentino en viaje. Juan Alvarez, entre el intelectual y el turista

One of the most ignored aspects of Juan Alvarez's work (for sure oneof the most praised and less historiographically analyzed Argentinehistorian) are his travel writings. Having been published in the daily press over more than ten years, a vast series of travel accounts by the restless historia...

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Autor principal:	Oscar R. Videla
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Publicado:	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2010
Materias:	exoticism intellectual Juan Alvarez tourist travel accounts Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5677c1636e4a4bbf909f5b905a8cde632021-12-02T10:29:51ZUn historiador argentino en viaje. Juan Alvarez, entre el intelectual y el turista1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.58458https://doaj.org/article/5677c1636e4a4bbf909f5b905a8cde632010-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/58458https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252One of the most ignored aspects of Juan Alvarez's work (for sure oneof the most praised and less historiographically analyzed Argentinehistorian) are his travel writings. Having been published in the daily press over more than ten years, a vast series of travel accounts by the restless historian from Rosario can be found among them. Just as most of the intellectuals of his generation, Alvarez was a fervent traveller (he made several trips to Europe, the United States, Canada or to the distant New Zealand) but, unlike them, his itineraries were not always that common (Tahiti, India and almost all of South America).In this paper we are interested in exploring the views through which Alvarez, the traveller, observes, experiences and narrates some of these destinations. In particular, we want to inquire into two dimensions. One of them, the most classical among the intellectuals of his age, the view of the scholar devoted to external realities as a mirror and/or in contrast to his own, either as an inventory or a warning about the national future. The other dimension, the other view which slips in through his writings, is more contemporary, less substantial and more relaxed, it belongs to the traveller in search of leisure, to the tourist who tours and observes places (normally with a semiorganized exoticism), laters howing to his readers an inventory which is springs from admiration rather than social or political reflection.Oscar R. VidelaCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticleexoticismintellectualJuan Alvareztouristtravel accountsAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2010)
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description	One of the most ignored aspects of Juan Alvarez's work (for sure oneof the most praised and less historiographically analyzed Argentinehistorian) are his travel writings. Having been published in the daily press over more than ten years, a vast series of travel accounts by the restless historian from Rosario can be found among them. Just as most of the intellectuals of his generation, Alvarez was a fervent traveller (he made several trips to Europe, the United States, Canada or to the distant New Zealand) but, unlike them, his itineraries were not always that common (Tahiti, India and almost all of South America).In this paper we are interested in exploring the views through which Alvarez, the traveller, observes, experiences and narrates some of these destinations. In particular, we want to inquire into two dimensions. One of them, the most classical among the intellectuals of his age, the view of the scholar devoted to external realities as a mirror and/or in contrast to his own, either as an inventory or a warning about the national future. The other dimension, the other view which slips in through his writings, is more contemporary, less substantial and more relaxed, it belongs to the traveller in search of leisure, to the tourist who tours and observes places (normally with a semiorganized exoticism), laters howing to his readers an inventory which is springs from admiration rather than social or political reflection.
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title	Un historiador argentino en viaje. Juan Alvarez, entre el intelectual y el turista
title_short	Un historiador argentino en viaje. Juan Alvarez, entre el intelectual y el turista
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Un historiador argentino en viaje. Juan Alvarez, entre el intelectual y el turista

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