Promesses de Patagonie, d’Araucanie et de Terre de Feu. Stratégies de collecte et d’élaboration du savoir scientifique en France concernant l’Extrême-Sud du continent américain (1878-1937)

In the 19th century, French ethnology relied on a network of public institutions, scholarly societies, and individuals, and was promoted by the musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro (1878-1937). In this era, the southernmost part of the Americas was perceived as a region that called into question the co...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:c21b46e3f80346279b8a254219682ab42021-12-02T10:33:51ZPromesses de Patagonie, d’Araucanie et de Terre de Feu. Stratégies de collecte et d’élaboration du savoir scientifique en France concernant l’Extrême-Sud du continent américain (1878-1937)1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.78818https://doaj.org/article/c21b46e3f80346279b8a254219682ab42019-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/78818https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252In the 19th century, French ethnology relied on a network of public institutions, scholarly societies, and individuals, and was promoted by the musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro (1878-1937). In this era, the southernmost part of the Americas was perceived as a region that called into question the conceptual and scientific frameworks of Western culture, due to its, its landscape of extremes, and the biological and cultural specificities of its inhabitants. The formation of a national French collection from this region was the result of individual and collective efforts. These collecting endeavors were tied to the dominant scientific paradigms, the personality of collectors and scholars for whom the collections were intended, and the political and social contexts of Argentina and Chile, as well as that of Native communities impacted by the loss of their economic independency and territorial autonomy. The “object” collected in the field arrived at the museum bearing values and views that influenced the ways the latter were perceived. This thesis analyses the practices of collecting and the construction of knowledge of these populations; in so doing, it writes a history of collections that deconstructs the old museum categorizations in order to recover their human and scientific consistency.Paz Núñez-RegueiroCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticleethnographic museumsexploratory missionsPatagoniaTierra del FuegoAraucaniaAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2019)
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language EN
FR
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topic ethnographic museums
exploratory missions
Patagonia
Tierra del Fuego
Araucania
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
spellingShingle ethnographic museums
exploratory missions
Patagonia
Tierra del Fuego
Araucania
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
Paz Núñez-Regueiro
Promesses de Patagonie, d’Araucanie et de Terre de Feu. Stratégies de collecte et d’élaboration du savoir scientifique en France concernant l’Extrême-Sud du continent américain (1878-1937)
description In the 19th century, French ethnology relied on a network of public institutions, scholarly societies, and individuals, and was promoted by the musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro (1878-1937). In this era, the southernmost part of the Americas was perceived as a region that called into question the conceptual and scientific frameworks of Western culture, due to its, its landscape of extremes, and the biological and cultural specificities of its inhabitants. The formation of a national French collection from this region was the result of individual and collective efforts. These collecting endeavors were tied to the dominant scientific paradigms, the personality of collectors and scholars for whom the collections were intended, and the political and social contexts of Argentina and Chile, as well as that of Native communities impacted by the loss of their economic independency and territorial autonomy. The “object” collected in the field arrived at the museum bearing values and views that influenced the ways the latter were perceived. This thesis analyses the practices of collecting and the construction of knowledge of these populations; in so doing, it writes a history of collections that deconstructs the old museum categorizations in order to recover their human and scientific consistency.
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author Paz Núñez-Regueiro
author_facet Paz Núñez-Regueiro
author_sort Paz Núñez-Regueiro
title Promesses de Patagonie, d’Araucanie et de Terre de Feu. Stratégies de collecte et d’élaboration du savoir scientifique en France concernant l’Extrême-Sud du continent américain (1878-1937)
title_short Promesses de Patagonie, d’Araucanie et de Terre de Feu. Stratégies de collecte et d’élaboration du savoir scientifique en France concernant l’Extrême-Sud du continent américain (1878-1937)
title_full Promesses de Patagonie, d’Araucanie et de Terre de Feu. Stratégies de collecte et d’élaboration du savoir scientifique en France concernant l’Extrême-Sud du continent américain (1878-1937)
title_fullStr Promesses de Patagonie, d’Araucanie et de Terre de Feu. Stratégies de collecte et d’élaboration du savoir scientifique en France concernant l’Extrême-Sud du continent américain (1878-1937)
title_full_unstemmed Promesses de Patagonie, d’Araucanie et de Terre de Feu. Stratégies de collecte et d’élaboration du savoir scientifique en France concernant l’Extrême-Sud du continent américain (1878-1937)
title_sort promesses de patagonie, d’araucanie et de terre de feu. stratégies de collecte et d’élaboration du savoir scientifique en france concernant l’extrême-sud du continent américain (1878-1937)
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
publishDate 2019
url https://doaj.org/article/c21b46e3f80346279b8a254219682ab4
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