El Atlas de Claude Gay y la representación de Chile
This article provides the basic information of Claude Gay’s trajectory and work in Chile as well as the vicissitudes of the publication of his Atlas de la Historia Física y Política de Chile. Thus, by appreciating the effort made by the naturalist in order to finish his cultural enterprise, we might...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Université Paris 3
2003-07-01
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| Series: | Cahiers des Amériques Latines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cal/7309 |
| Summary: | This article provides the basic information of Claude Gay’s trajectory and work in Chile as well as the vicissitudes of the publication of his Atlas de la Historia Física y Política de Chile. Thus, by appreciating the effort made by the naturalist in order to finish his cultural enterprise, we might ponder how his work contributed to the process of Chilean Republic’s building. We propose that Gay’s Atlas constituted the first example, at least in Chilean history, of the conscious use of images as pedagogic instruments aimed to spread widely notions pertaining scientific knowledge, physiognomy and the nature of a society captured through the representation of its social models, typical environments, distinctive occupations and characteristics forms of leisure. |
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| ISSN: | 1141-7161 2268-4247 |