Archives, colonists and the Borders of the Territory of Chubut. Photographs of the Juan Moreteau Documentary Archive Fond
Juan Moreteau (1870-1951) was a French engineer who settled in Argentina in 1895. At that time, he joined the Topographic and Geological Section of the Museo de la Plata, directed by Francisco P. Moreno and was appointed as a technician of the Argentina Border Commission with Chile. In 1903 he settl...
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Centro de Estudios Históricos “Prof. Carlos S. A. Segreti”
2023
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| Sumario: | Juan Moreteau (1870-1951) was a French engineer who settled in Argentina in 1895. At that time, he joined the Topographic and Geological Section of the Museo de la Plata, directed by Francisco P. Moreno and was appointed as a technician of the Argentina Border Commission with Chile. In 1903 he settled in Trelew (Chubut-Argentina) from where he carried out explorations and tasksrelated to his profession. The photographs from the Juan Moreteau Documentary Archive Fond, recovered by the Patagonian Institute of Social and Human Sciences (IPSH-Conicet), allow us to analyze the point of view about his own figure as an explorer, that of his co-workers, his neighbors, about the interethnic relationships and the representations of Patagonian nature in this context. The problems of the archives in Argentina have caused a certain dispersion of the documentary fonds, therefore, the enhancement of Moreteau’s materials opens a new window to a key moment in the expansion of the central state in Patagonia. |
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