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1. La circulación de “papeles" ilustrados en Tierra Firme a finales del periodo colonial. La “vida filosófica" de Francisco Isnardi.

Author

Silva Beauregard, Paulette

Subjects
*LATIN American philosophy, *INTELLECTUALS, *INTELLECTUALS -- Political activity, *NINETEENTH century, *HISTORY, *INTELLECTUAL life, VENEZUELAN social conditions
Abstract

Towards the end of the colonial period the east coasts of the General Captaincy of Venezuela were the setting of an intense movement of ideas, papers and people, as well as of conspiracies and confrontments (both armed and unarmed). In that context emerged the figure of Francisco Isnardi, who would soon be imprisoned for alleged intentions to conspire. The study of this case of treason, especially of the suspect's library, which was confiscated, allows us to present a set of problems regarding the diffusion of enlightened values in Tierra Firme during that time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013

2. Letras bordadas con seda y oro: los intelectuales latinoamericanos frente al asedio de la democracia (1870-1900).

Author

Feldman, Hernán

Subjects
*INTELLECTUALS, *DEMOCRACY, *NARRATION, *MODERNITY, *HISTORY, *NINETEENTH century, *INTELLECTUAL life, LATIN American social conditions
Abstract

The present paper studies narratives strategies used by a fair part of Latin-American intellectuals in order to defy the rapid changes taking place in urban society in the late nineteenth century. Furthermore, the paper explores the rhetoric models men of letters used to qualify the limits of the notion of democracy, with the hope that these discursive interventions would limit the access to places of influence where new social actors struggled to enter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013

3. Soñar con Hollywood en América Latina. Cine y literatura en algunos relatos de los años 1920 y 1930.

Author

Gárate, Miriam V.

Subjects
*MOTION pictures & literature, *MOTION pictures, *MOTION picture industry, *DISCOURSE analysis, *MIMESIS in motion pictures, *AMERICAN films -- 20th century, *TWENTIETH century, *HISTORY, HISTORY of the motion picture industry
Abstract

The present paper offers a few notes on the impact of North-American films in Latin American society in the 1920's and 1930s, based on Latin- American stories produced during that period. The analysis will be guided mainly by the notions of mimetic desire (Girard) and cinema situation (Mauerhofer), as well as by the updated motif of the double (and its "realist" substitute, the doublé), in such a context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013

4. El etnógrafo como contrabandista. Tráfico de imágenes, propagación de conceptos y usos de la cultura material en la obra de Alfred Métraux.

Author

Fernández Bravo, Álvaro

Subjects
*MATERIAL culture in art, *20TH century Latin American art, *ANTHROPOLOGICAL research, *CULTURAL property, *TWENTIETH century, *HISTORY, INDIGENOUS influences on Latin American civilization
Abstract

The present paper develops a few hypotheses regarding the traffic of material culture in Latin America and its impact, both in the field con anthropologic knowledge and in the artistic vanguards of the first half of the twentieth century. The circulation networks that supported the exchange of images and objects between ethnographers and institutions that supported their research allow for the reconstruction of the itineraries followed by those objects, the footprints of those trajectories in the construction of knowledge, the demarcation of disciplinary fields and the transgression of epistemological frontiers, associated to the emergence of new aesthetic objects and sciences such as anthropology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013