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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Centro de Estudios Históricos “Prof. Carlos S. A. Segreti”
2013
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| Sumario: | 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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