Bureaucracy, Instructions, and Paperwork – The Gathering of Data about the Three Kingdoms of Nature in the Americas, 1770-1815

This paper examines the system of production and circulation of knowledge linked to Spanish bureaucracy and the Atlantic trade. Based on primary sources from the General Archive of the Indies (AGI), the General Archive of the Nation (Argentina-AGN), the Archive of the Royal College of Surgeons (Lond...

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Autor principal:	Irina Podgorny
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Publicado:	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2019
Materias:	museums collections Spanish America classifications natural history Megatherium Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f16d7718fc9d40819fbf61fd45a1f90e2021-12-02T10:34:58ZBureaucracy, Instructions, and Paperwork – The Gathering of Data about the Three Kingdoms of Nature in the Americas, 1770-18151626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.75454https://doaj.org/article/f16d7718fc9d40819fbf61fd45a1f90e2019-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/75454https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252This paper examines the system of production and circulation of knowledge linked to Spanish bureaucracy and the Atlantic trade. Based on primary sources from the General Archive of the Indies (AGI), the General Archive of the Nation (Argentina-AGN), the Archive of the Royal College of Surgeons (London-RCS), and on secondary bibliography, this article, rather than focus on the objects collected, considers the documents that resulted from the “necessity” of collecting minerals, plants and animals, revealing the true protagonists of this story: the pathways of bureaucracy and the flow of paperwork where data about nature and man in the Americas were generated and took shape. At the same time, it reflects on the adoption of the "three kingdoms of nature" defined by Linnaeus and adopted in the instructions to complete the Royal Cabinet of Natural History of Madrid.Irina PodgornyCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticlemuseumscollectionsSpanish Americaclassificationsnatural historyMegatheriumAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2019)
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spellingShingle	museums collections Spanish America classifications natural history Megatherium Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799 Irina Podgorny Bureaucracy, Instructions, and Paperwork – The Gathering of Data about the Three Kingdoms of Nature in the Americas, 1770-1815
description	This paper examines the system of production and circulation of knowledge linked to Spanish bureaucracy and the Atlantic trade. Based on primary sources from the General Archive of the Indies (AGI), the General Archive of the Nation (Argentina-AGN), the Archive of the Royal College of Surgeons (London-RCS), and on secondary bibliography, this article, rather than focus on the objects collected, considers the documents that resulted from the “necessity” of collecting minerals, plants and animals, revealing the true protagonists of this story: the pathways of bureaucracy and the flow of paperwork where data about nature and man in the Americas were generated and took shape. At the same time, it reflects on the adoption of the "three kingdoms of nature" defined by Linnaeus and adopted in the instructions to complete the Royal Cabinet of Natural History of Madrid.
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title	Bureaucracy, Instructions, and Paperwork – The Gathering of Data about the Three Kingdoms of Nature in the Americas, 1770-1815
title_short	Bureaucracy, Instructions, and Paperwork – The Gathering of Data about the Three Kingdoms of Nature in the Americas, 1770-1815
title_full	Bureaucracy, Instructions, and Paperwork – The Gathering of Data about the Three Kingdoms of Nature in the Americas, 1770-1815
title_fullStr	Bureaucracy, Instructions, and Paperwork – The Gathering of Data about the Three Kingdoms of Nature in the Americas, 1770-1815
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title_sort	bureaucracy, instructions, and paperwork – the gathering of data about the three kingdoms of nature in the americas, 1770-1815
publisher	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
publishDate	2019
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Bureaucracy, Instructions, and Paperwork – The Gathering of Data about the Three Kingdoms of Nature in the Americas, 1770-1815

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