Thèse : Viajeros y museos de México: construyendo una comunidad imaginada una Idea y un objeto a la vez
Créateur
- Aldama, Dulce
- Gómez, Leila. Directeur de thèse
Résumé
This thesis studies the way interpretations of a pre-colonial past drive the formation of Mexico as an imagined community. In particular, my study considers how foreign and local travelers and intellectuals from the 18-20th centuries bring meaning (resemanticize) to objects from indigenous cultures in Mexico they collected and created narratives with these cultural materials. The collections of objects created by foreign and local intellectuals throughout the centuries in Mexico, eventually became national heritage and were placed in national museums where these objects represent dominant identitary discourses. I explore the case of the National Museum of Anthropology (NMA), which I propose is a palimpsest of ideas of local and foreign travelers and intellectuals.
This thesis starts in the 18th century, studying works and collecting practices of the Italian traveler Lorenzo Boturini Benaducci (1702 – 1753) and the creole Jesuit Francisco Javier Clavigero (1731 – 1787). It continues in the 19th century with the analysis of collecting practices and efforts to shape the National Museum by the Mexican intellectual and museum director, José Fernando Ramírez (1804 – 1871), and Maximiliano de Habsburgo (1832 – 1867), the last emperor of Mexico. The final chapter considers how the NMA is a concrete symbol in the discursive creation of the Mexican nation. The museological discourse plays a role thus in the self-formed subjectivity that would make possible to build the nation as an imagined community.
Informations pratiques
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (362 p.)
- Ph.D. : University of Colorado at Boulder : Spanish and Portuguese : 2019
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Olivier Jacquot (5 mai 2025). Thèse : Viajeros y museos de México: construyendo una comunidad imaginada una Idea y un objeto a la vez. Amoxcalli. Consulté le 17 janvier 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/13v0i
