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- Title
Artefactos para los museos: ingreso y circulación de objetos americanos en Francia, siglo XIX.
- Authors
RIVIALE, PASCAL
- Abstract
Since the very early 19th century the number of museums had been increasing spectacularly in France. Most of them had every kind of collections; meanwhile some new, specialized museums began to see the light and were more suitable to receive ethnographical and archaeological items from Latin America. At the same time, with the independencies France as well as other European countries - had the opportunity to intensify his relations with new American Republics. In that context we can observe the increasing number of Amerindian artefacts brought back and circulating in France in those years. The lack of anthropological knowledge and methodology about these objects and the difficulties to maintain a long term scientific policy, made many of these collections useless by the time of their entry into the museums. In the 2nd part of the 19th century we can observe new intents to rationalize investigations in human science and to develop networks of antiquarians and scientists more specialized in prehistory and non-European anthropology. The foundation of the Trocadéro ethnographical useum in the 1880's and the evolution of anthropology lin general) and of Americanism (in particular) offered a new context to receive and study ethnographical and archaeological collections in France.
- Subjects
FRANCE; ANTIQUITIES; ETHNOLOGY; MUSEUMS; ANTIQUITIES of indigenous peoples of the Americas; ANTIQUARIANS; ANTHROPOLOGY
- Publication
Baessler-Archiv, 2008, Vol 56, p89
- ISSN
0005-3856
- Publication type
Article