Contemplar y poseer. El poder de la mirada en la disputa por la apropiación de objetos y monumentos de las culturas antiguas de Centroamérica

 

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Автор: Alvarenga Venutolo, Patricia
Формат: artículo original
Статус:Versión publicada
Дата публикации:2015
Описание:The dialogue between the narratives written by the Corregidor del Petén Modesto Méndez and the northamerican diplomatic J. L. Stephens about the discovery of the ruins of Tikal, located in Guatemala by the first and Copán and Quiruguá, in Honduras and Guatemala respectively by the second. The goal of this article consist in analyze the arguments of travelers and scientific to justify their appropriation of archaeological wealth as well as the scope of the answers given by the subjects from subaltern countries to such appropriation. This article develops the issue of “esthetic contemplation.” From the prospective of whom coming from the hegemonic countries, the esthetic contemplation is an exclusive attribute of them that establishes a radical distance between them and the nations located at the south of the world. This text explores how Méndez responds to such a conception in order to observe the reach of his challenge to colonial system. Furthermore, the article has two other prospectives: it put in dialogue the narrative de Méndez y Stephens with the narrative related to ancestral monuments coming from the previous centuries in order to explore the changes in their representation that the modernity introduced. Secondly, these pages analyze how Mendez was read by an actor of the Guatemalan Revolution (1944-1954) Hugo Cerezo Dardón in order to explain why such discourse acquire such a signification during the process of national formation prompted by the revolutionary state.
Страна:Portal de Revistas UNA
Институт:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Язык:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/7095
Online-ссылка:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/historia/article/view/7095
Ключевое слово:Central America
Guatemala
colonialism
travelers
archeology
revolution
scientific expeditions
twentieth century
Centroamérica
colonialismo
arqueología
viajeros
revolución
expedición científica
siglo XX