Latin America at Fin-de-Siècle Universal Exhibitions

Uslenghi, Alejandra

doi:10.1057/9781137553966

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“…Esto se observa claramente en la guía compilada por Geppert et al (2006), en la que solo para las exposiciones realizadas en París se listan 13 páginas de referencias. Como se verá, para mi acercamiento sigo los lineamientos marcados por Bruno (2020), sumo los aportes ya casi clásicos de Hamond (1992) y los recorridos más recientes -con la mirada puesta en América Latina-de Anderman y González-Sthepan (2006) y Uslenghi (2015).…”

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“Ecos de Europa” de Lucio V. Mansilla: el corresponsal, entre la noticia de última hora y la divulgación de las maravillas de la electricidad

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2023

Atenea (Concepc.)

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El presente trabajo se propone abordar “Ecos de Europa”, columna publicada por Lucio V. Mansilla en La Tribuna Nacional, entre marzo de 1881 y octubre de 1883. Se analizará, en particular, cómo Mansilla construye su figura como corresponsal y las temporalidades sobre las que se sostiene su escritura en relación con los modos de transmisión de las noticias. En primer lugar, me ocuparé de los modos de configuración de la “noticia de última hora” que requiere la urgencia del acontecer político. En segundo lugar, trabajaré sobre otro tópico central en la columna que, a la vez que obedece a la necesidad de estar al tanto, sincroniza de otra manera con el impulso de actualidad: la necesidad de dar cuenta de los adelantos científicos y técnicos, particularmente, de los que giran en torno a la electricidad. Este trabajo se enmarca en un proyecto colectivo que ha tenido como resultado la elaboración de la “Colección Lucio V. Mansilla”, alojada en la web de la Biblioteca Nacional “Mariano Moreno”, en la cual se reúnen materiales dispersos producidos por Mansilla para redimensionarlos y habilitar nuevas lecturas de su obra.

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“Ecos de Europa” de Lucio V. Mansilla: el corresponsal, entre la noticia de última hora y la divulgación de las maravillas de la electricidad

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2023

Atenea (Concepc.)

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“…Critics have argued that through the evocation of the past as a subject in the construction of the Argentinian school, it was able to archive the disappearance of presences which by the time of the centenary had largely disappeared. That is to say, the nation had been able to quell the threat of the obdurate and hostile elements that stood in the way of the promise of a modern future (Bravo 2006;Uslenghi 2016). Through the relegation of these original presences of the past, the nation legitimatised itself as a stable investment and signalled that there lay vast the natural riches of the extensive prairies waiting to be exploited.…”

Section: International Exhibition Of Fine Artsmentioning

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The Mise-en-Scène of Modernity

Freeman¹

2022

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

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This article examines the various stagings of progress as exhibited at Argentina's International Centennial Exhibitions hosted in Buenos Aires in 1910. In preparation for the exhibitions, a wealthy port aristocracy oversaw renovations of the private and public, material and symbolic spaces of the city which transformed the capital into a political theatre. A chronology of the exhibitions (agriculture, industry, hygiene, railways, and the arts) and their accumulated symbols are read as multidimensional sites of encounter where a clash of contradictory interests and agencies interact. The text emerges out of a moment of ethnographic encounter and weaves together the words of my interlocutors with historical and theoretical analysis. In doing so, the article reflects from different angles upon the relationship between the rituals of showing and of spectatorship involved in the State's aesthetic performance of national progress.

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“…In addition, as Alejandra Uslenghi has pointed out, the US government-sponsored Bureau of the American Republics partly assumed the representation of the Central and South American republics at the Chicago fair, thus further restricting the possibilities for autonomous national self-representation. 35 Envisioning an Indianist empire Despite an increasingly difficult political situation at home, no Latin American country allocated more resources to the world's fairs of 1889 and 1893 than Brazil. After the abolition of slavery in May 1888, the already strong republican opposition to Dom Pedro II's long-lasting empire became even more vigorous, as important conservative groups of ex-slaveholders withdrew their support from a government that many felt to be completely out of touch.…”

Section: Latin America At the Nineteenth-century World's Fairsmentioning

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The world’s fairs as spaces of global knowledge: Latin American archaeology and anthropology in the age of exhibitions

Schuster

2018

Journal of Global History

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At the end of the nineteenth century, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru were among the countries participating in the most important world's fairs in Europe and North America. These mass gatherings focused on national self-images as well as technological development and commodities, but the Latin American exhibition organizers also understood them to be transnational spaces that contributed to the mobility of persons, objects, and knowledge. In this context, the scientific display of pre-Columbian 'antiquities' was regarded as being as important as the participation in archaeological and anthropological congresses. By understanding the world's fairs as 'spaces of global knowledge', this article highlights the agency of Latin American scientists, intellectuals, and collectors in the transnational endeavour to create a 'Latin American antiquity' at the fairgrounds. Although most fair attendees sought to study and display the pre-Columbian past in an objective manner, the older dream of (re-)constructing the splendour of America's ancient civilizations never completely vanished.

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Latin America at Fin-de-Siècle Universal Exhibitions

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“Ecos de Europa” de Lucio V. Mansilla: el corresponsal, entre la noticia de última hora y la divulgación de las maravillas de la electricidad

“Ecos de Europa” de Lucio V. Mansilla: el corresponsal, entre la noticia de última hora y la divulgación de las maravillas de la electricidad

The Mise-en-Scène of Modernity

The world’s fairs as spaces of global knowledge: Latin American archaeology and anthropology in the age of exhibitions

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