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      Trayectorias y desafíos de la historiografía de los museos de historia natural en América Del Sur

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          En el siglo XIX los museos de historia natural de América del Sur se constituyeron en instrumentos clave para el intercambio y la circulación de datos y especímenes y, en ese sentido, en loci privilegiados de la infraestructura de las ciencias y del saber. Almacenaron tal cantidad de objetos y colecciones que los organizadores de estas instituciones se enfrentaron al problema de cómo guardarlos y exhibirlos dándoles un orden que pudiera entenderse. Por eso, los museos no pueden separarse de la historia del papel, del archivo y de los catálogos. Este artículo repasa algunas cuestiones de la historiografía producida en las últimas décadas, discutiendo, entre otras cosas, la identificación acrítica entre museos, memoria y representación de la nación. A su vez, propone el desafío de cómo escribir la historia de los museos incorporando los agentes humanos y no humanos y el conjunto de circunstancias que sustentan sus éxitos y fracasos.

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          Powerful tools of interchange and circulation of data and specimens, Natural History museums constituted themselves in several Latin-American countries, such as Argentine and Brazil as privileged loci of epistemic infrastructure since the nineteenth century. The museums gathered huge amounts of collections of surveys of territories and people, always proposed as comprehensive, ultimate and exhaustive endeavors, which made those institutions face the challenges of not only storing and displayng the collections and specimens but also how to order the latter in archives and catalogues that would make them intelligible. Problematizing issues already present in the nowadays consistent literature, including the Latin-American contribution, on museums, the paper discusses among other themes, the acritical identification between museums and the representation of nations and the recurrent notion of museums as place of memory. It proposes as a challenge to the new generation of scholar to ponder how to write these histories incorporating their human and non-human agents as well as the set of events and circunstances that generated their sucesses and failures.

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                anaismp
                Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material
                An. mus. paul.
                Museu Paulista, Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo )
                1982-0267
                June 2013
                : 21
                : 1
                : 15-25
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Archivo Histórico - Museo de La Plata
                [2 ] Universidade de Brasília Brazil
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                S0101-47142013000100003
                10.1590/S0101-47142013000100003
                61e2ef4a-1ab2-4d53-934a-f3244853a6cd

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

                Collections,History of science,Latin America,19th Century,Colecciones,Historia de la ciencia,América Latina,Siglo XIX

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