1. Sur les traces de l’exode de la race à long nez: Les Voyages de Joseph Charles Manó dans l’Amérique Espagnole,1870-1886
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Podgorny, Irina
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Archaeological collections ,purl.org/becyt/ford/6 [https] ,Historia y Arqueología ,19th century ,South America ,lcsh:HE1-9990 ,Charlatanerie ,Historia ,Arqueología ,HUMANIDADES ,Histoire de L'Archéologie ,lcsh:Transportation and communications ,purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1 [https] ,Joseph Charles Manó - Abstract
L'articolo ricostruisce alcuni viaggi compiuti da Joseph Charles Manó (1835? -1886), esploratore, avventuriero e autoproclamatosi uomo di scienza, il Sud America e l’America Centrale nella seconda metà del XIX secolo. Presidente della Commissione colombiana di Science, lavorò anche come geologo in Ecuador, Guatemala e per la costruzione del Canale interoceanico. Il saggio, prendendo spunto dall’esperienza di Manò, mettere in evidenza la diversità delle pratiche scientifiche di viaggio del secondo Ottocento. Il lavoro si è avvalso dell’ausilio di alcuni articoli relativi a Manò pubblicati nella stampa quotidiana dei diversi paesi sudamericani visitati dall’esploratore, delle sue pubblicazioni e di inediti manoscritti rinvenuti nell’archivio della Società Geografica custoditi alla Biblioteca Nazionale di Francia e in altre biblioteche americane., This paper traces the itinerary of Joseph Charles Manó across Spanish America – an impostor-naturalist who, in the course of his peripatetic life, collected, exhibited and studied anything from botanical, mineralogical and zoological specimens to archaeological artifacts, and from “curiosities” to maps and books. He did so mainly because he was well aware of what Spanish America’s governing elites were willing to pay for during the 1870s and early-1880s: collections and reports that conveyed comprehensive visions of their national territories – the diversity and richness of both their natural kingdoms and their arts. Instead of judging the collections of r Manó as “unscientific”, the essay considers the extent to which they are a reflection of a nineteenth-century scientific culture that had not yet established criteria for what exactly American archaeology exactly was to be., Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo
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- 2018