Bureaucracy and State Knowledge: On the Production of Statistics in Chile (1750s-1870s)

This article studies the formation of the Chilean statistical service in a period that ranges from the last decades of colonial rule to the 1870’s. The purpose of this chronology is to place the first republican scientific efforts in a broad time horizon, linking them with the proto-statistical rese...

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Autor principal:	Andrés Estefane
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Publicado:	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2019
Materias:	statistics State-formation process bureaucracy provinces Chile Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f891838fdf10463abd641b503e825adb2021-12-02T10:34:51ZBureaucracy and State Knowledge: On the Production of Statistics in Chile (1750s-1870s)1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.76841https://doaj.org/article/f891838fdf10463abd641b503e825adb2019-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/76841https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252This article studies the formation of the Chilean statistical service in a period that ranges from the last decades of colonial rule to the 1870’s. The purpose of this chronology is to place the first republican scientific efforts in a broad time horizon, linking them with the proto-statistical researches ordered by the Spanish Crown during the second half of the eighteenth century. I argue that the colonial experience was crucial, but not determinant for the production of statistics in the early republican period. This line of continuity rested primarily on those intellectuals and bureaucrats who did research for the Empire and later performed similar tasks in the nascent republic. Such scientific heritage, however, started to change in parallel to the consolidation of the Chilean State, which brought about the development of a more robust and better anchored bureaucracy, the emergence of a specialized institution in charge of producing statistics, the increasingly national focus of the State research programs, and the inclusion of the local statistical production in global networks of knowledge exchange. By tracing the connections between scientific knowledge and State bureaucracy at provincial level, this article seeks to show the role statistics played in the forging of the Chilean State.Andrés EstefaneCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticlestatisticsState-formation processbureaucracyprovincesChileAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2019)
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description	This article studies the formation of the Chilean statistical service in a period that ranges from the last decades of colonial rule to the 1870’s. The purpose of this chronology is to place the first republican scientific efforts in a broad time horizon, linking them with the proto-statistical researches ordered by the Spanish Crown during the second half of the eighteenth century. I argue that the colonial experience was crucial, but not determinant for the production of statistics in the early republican period. This line of continuity rested primarily on those intellectuals and bureaucrats who did research for the Empire and later performed similar tasks in the nascent republic. Such scientific heritage, however, started to change in parallel to the consolidation of the Chilean State, which brought about the development of a more robust and better anchored bureaucracy, the emergence of a specialized institution in charge of producing statistics, the increasingly national focus of the State research programs, and the inclusion of the local statistical production in global networks of knowledge exchange. By tracing the connections between scientific knowledge and State bureaucracy at provincial level, this article seeks to show the role statistics played in the forging of the Chilean State.
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title	Bureaucracy and State Knowledge: On the Production of Statistics in Chile (1750s-1870s)
title_short	Bureaucracy and State Knowledge: On the Production of Statistics in Chile (1750s-1870s)
title_full	Bureaucracy and State Knowledge: On the Production of Statistics in Chile (1750s-1870s)
title_fullStr	Bureaucracy and State Knowledge: On the Production of Statistics in Chile (1750s-1870s)
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Bureaucracy and State Knowledge: On the Production of Statistics in Chile (1750s-1870s)

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