Dos visiones del hombre americano. d’Orbigny, Marcoy y la etnología sudamericana
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Jean-Pierre Chaumeil
- Source
- Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, Vol 32, Pp 459-465 (2003)
- Subject
- Americanism
Travels
Nineteenth-century
Indigenous Cultures
Classifications
Eurocentrism.
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
Social sciences (General)
H1-99
- Language
- Spanish; Castilian
French
- ISSN
- 0303-7495
2076-5827
The recent publication of the travels in South America of d’Orbigny and Marcoy leads us to compare - from a scientific point of view as for their reception to the general public - their respective contributions to the knowledge of lowland amerindians. If the two travellers contrast on numerous aspects, they have however adopted common attitudes toward the indigenous populations. They have moreover (but for diverse reasons) known some kind of discredit from academic circle. However that may be, the trajectories of the two travellers is very instructive to inderstand the way in which the americanist community conform in the middle of the nineteenth-century.