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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Miseres, Vanesa

Titel

Materiales de viaje: La funcion de los objetos en las fotografias, ensayos y diario personal de Alice Dixon Le Plongeon en Yucatan

Ist Teil von

• Latin American research review, 2021-01, Vol.56 (1), p.126-141

Ort / Verlag

Pittsburgh: Latin American Studies Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article analyzes the photographs, essays, and travel diary of the English explorer Alice Dixon Le Plongeon on her stay in the Yucatan Peninsula during the second half of the nineteenth century (1874-1885). Despite her pioneering work as an explorer and photographer of Chichen Itza and Uxmal, Dixon has not been part of the group of foreign travelers--men and women-- who compose the multicultural, multilingual canon of Latin America. My study rescues Dixon's work, paying particular attention to the materials (furniture, clothing, household, photographic instruments) that built her experience and knowledge as an archaeologist and photographer in the Yucatan. An analysis of the presence, circulation, and reflection on objects ("things" under Bill Brown's definition) contributes to the study of the complex relationship between travelers' own identities and the territories they visited, highlights the role of material culture in the definition of "the feminine" in the nineteenth century, and proposes new ways to approach the construction of scientific and ethnographic knowledge in women's travelogues.