Those networks that reason ignores. Archives and collections in the institutional "biography" of the Museo de La Plata
Taking as an example the Museo de La Plata during its foundational years, in this essay we discuss the role documents and archives would play to study the nexus between scientific institutions, actors and set of practices at the end of nineteenth-century Argentina. Although scattered and fragmentary...
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I10-R285-article-340262025-12-09T21:01:01Z Those networks that reason ignores. Archives and collections in the institutional "biography" of the Museo de La Plata Esas redes que la razón ignora. Archivos y colecciones en la "biografía" institucional del Museo de La Plata Farro, Máximo archivos historia de la ciencia historia institucional museos archives history of science institutional history museums Taking as an example the Museo de La Plata during its foundational years, in this essay we discuss the role documents and archives would play to study the nexus between scientific institutions, actors and set of practices at the end of nineteenth-century Argentina. Although scattered and fragmentary, these valuable and often dismissed sources provides useful information related with institutional aims and the general management of resources, collections, exhibitions, personnel and the making and publishing of scientific works. Finally, it is stated that documents and archives are useful to obtain more nuanced and less biased representations of the scientific institutions of the time, usually imbued by a sort of foundational discourse with nationalist overtones which pervades also the more recent and supposedly critical historiographical production based on the idea of a strong link between the Museo de La Plata foundation and both territorial control by the State and "Nation-building" processes. En el presente ensayo, tomando como caso al Museo de La Plata, se discuten las posibilidades que los acervos documentales brindan para la historia de la ciencia, en especial, para el estudio de la vinculación entre instituciones y prácticas científicas a partir de las últimas décadas del siglo XIX. El trabajo con el conjunto de las fuentes documentales, si bien dispersas y fragmentarias para algunos casos, relacionadas con la gestión de las tareas, los recursos y los cambiantes objetivos del Museo de La Plata, permite indagar en el universo de actores y prácticas vinculadas a la ciencia en la época. Al mismo tiempo, esas fuentes ponen en cuestión y matizan la producción historiográfica que se basa tanto en el relato que aúna las hagiografías de su fundador con el devenir institucional, como en la idea de una fuerte vinculación de origen entre el Museo con el proceso de despliegue la "Nación", donde habría funcionado como un brazo instrumental en el proceso de dominio territorial. Centro de Estudios Históricos “Prof. Carlos S. A. Segreti” 2013-12-31 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Dossier application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/refa/article/view/34026 10.70629/1853.4503.v.n4.34026 Revista Electrónica de Fuentes y Archivos; Núm. 4 (2013); 76-84 1853-4503 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/refa/article/view/34026/34484 Derechos de autor 2013 Máximo Farro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 |
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Those networks that reason ignores. Archives and collections in the institutional "biography" of the Museo de La Plata |
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Taking as an example the Museo de La Plata during its foundational years, in this essay we discuss the role documents and archives would play to study the nexus between scientific institutions, actors and set of practices at the end of nineteenth-century Argentina. Although scattered and fragmentary, these valuable and often dismissed sources provides useful information related with institutional aims and the general management of resources, collections, exhibitions, personnel and the making and publishing of scientific works. Finally, it is stated that documents and archives are useful to obtain more nuanced and less biased representations of the scientific institutions of the time, usually imbued by a sort of foundational discourse with nationalist overtones which pervades also the more recent and supposedly critical historiographical production based on the idea of a strong link between the Museo de La Plata foundation and both territorial control by the State and "Nation-building" processes. |
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