En la costa de la niebla el paisaje y el discurso etnográfico ilustrado de la expedición Malaspina en el Pacífico
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Published by Fernando Monge, En la costa de la niebla: el paisaje y el discurso etnográfico ilustrado de la expedición Malaspina en el Pacífico examines the late 18th-century scientific voyage led by Alejandro Malaspina along the fog-shrouded Pacific Northwest coast. The book analyzes the intricate intersection of Enlightenment-era exploration, landscape representation, and the visual ethnography captured by artists and naturalists documenting indigenous societies from Alaska down to the Spanish colonial outposts. Through a close reading of historical journals and newly contextualized illustrations, the text reveals how imperial ambition sought to categorize and control remote foreign geographies through the dual lens of science and art. A keen insight drawn from the work is how Enlightenment science in the Pacific was never truly neutral; rather, the detailed cataloging of local native cultures and misty coastlines served as an aesthetic tool of Spanish territorial claim-making, transforming indigenous homelands into legible imperial commodities. |
| Author(s): | Fernando Monge |
| Document: | Book · Paperback · CIRC [ 1 ] |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Published: | 2002 |
| Physical Description: | 238 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Contents: | Nuevas lentes para viejos problemas: el 'giro cultural' en la antropolog ia y la historia Los escenarios del conocimiento ilustrado: el poder y el comercio en la epoca de la expedici on Malaspina En los l imites del Imperio: escribiendo sobre los habitantes de la Costa Noroeste y el Pac ifico La preparaci on del 'trabajo de campo' expedicionario 'Etnograf ia' y exploraci on: puerto Mulgrave, 27 de junio a 5 de julio de 1791 El mundo visitado: paisaje y discurso etnogr afico en la expedici on Malaspina |
| Subjects: | Ethnologie Amérique du Nord, Ethnology, Ethnology North America, Ethnology Northwest, Pacific, Etnología América Siglo XVIII, Expedicion Malaspina (1789-1794), Expedición Malaspina, Expedición Malaspina (1789-1794), Exploraciones científicas España Historia, Indians of North America Northwest, Pacific, Indios americanos Costa noroeste (Norte |
Circulation
Here are a list of places where this title can be found and the various formats it can be found in.
| Collection | Resource | Available | Edition | Published | Publisher |
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| The Cascade District: Encyclopedia Library | Book | Paperback | 1st Edition | 2002 | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, 2002 |
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