Brooke Penaloza Patzak
Biographic Data
| ID | 161020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brooke Penaloza Patzak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brooke Penaloza |
| FAMILY NAME | Patzak |
| SIGNATURE | PATZAK B P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1468-3020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Making science of things: Objects and knowledge in, between, and beyond the sciences
Things and collections of things are among the most ubiquitous forms of scientific evidence, inducing the very concept itself – from the Latin evidentia , obvious to the mind or eye – into the physical realm. Things also tend to stick around; that which was acquired for research purposes is eventually transferred to storage, where it either disintegrates, or ages and accumulates. This obduracy of being renders things subject to almost infinite af…
Sense and the science of nineteenth-century environmental determinism
In 1865, nineteen-year-old William Healey Dall was appointed second in command of the Western Union Telegraph Expedition Scientific Corps. The expedition aim was to gauge the feasibility of running a telegraph wire overland from California to Europe by way of the Bering Strait. U.S. Congress, operating under the aegis of the Smithsonian Institution, commissioned a Scientific Corps to capitalize on the expedition infrastructure through the collect…
Franz Boas and Aby Warburg: The Complete Correspondence, 1895 to 1928
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An Emissary from Berlin: Franz Boas and the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-88
Ethnographic objects in museums are physical evidence of the networks through which they circulate and manifestations of the scientific terrain as inscribed by those networks. Combined with archival documentation of their intra-institutional circulations, these objects can also aid in the reconstruction of the historical development of science. This avenue of research offers a new perspective that brings object collections into dialogue with the …
The Museum is Open: Towards a Transnational History of Museums 1750-1940 (Meyer and Savoy, eds.)
This work is a book review considering the title The Museum is Open: Towards a Transnational History of Museums 1750-1940 edited by Andrea Meyer and Benedicte Savoy
First Peoples of Canada: Masterworks from the Canadian Museum of Civilization (Pilon and Prince, eds.)
This work is a book review considering the title First Peoples of Canada: Masterworks from the Canadian Museum of Civilization edited by Jean-Luc Pilon and Nicholette Prince
An Emissary from Berlin: Franz Boas and the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-88
Ethnographic objects in museums are physical evidence of the networks through which they circulate and manifestations of the scientific terrain as inscribed by those networks. Combined with archival documentation of their intra-institutional circulations, these objects can also aid in the reconstruction of the historical development of science. This avenue of research offers a new perspective that brings object collections into dialogue with the …
First Peoples of Canada: Masterworks from the Canadian Museum of Civilization (Pilon and Prince, eds.)
This work is a book review considering the title First Peoples of Canada: Masterworks from the Canadian Museum of Civilization edited by Jean-Luc Pilon and Nicholette Prince
The Museum is Open: Towards a Transnational History of Museums 1750-1940 (Meyer and Savoy, eds.)
This work is a book review considering the title The Museum is Open: Towards a Transnational History of Museums 1750-1940 edited by Andrea Meyer and Benedicte Savoy
An Emissary from Berlin: Franz Boas and the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-88
Ethnographic objects in museums are physical evidence of the networks through which they circulate and manifestations of the scientific terrain as inscribed by those networks. Combined with archival documentation of their intra-institutional circulations, these objects can also aid in the reconstruction of the historical development of science. This avenue of research offers a new perspective that brings object collections into dialogue with the …
Lektüren
Franz Boas and Aby Warburg: The Complete Correspondence, 1895 to 1928
Making science of things: Objects and knowledge in, between, and beyond the sciences
Things and collections of things are among the most ubiquitous forms of scientific evidence, inducing the very concept itself – from the Latin evidentia , obvious to the mind or eye – into the physical realm. Things also tend to stick around; that which was acquired for research purposes is eventually transferred to storage, where it either disintegrates, or ages and accumulates. This obduracy of being renders things subject to almost infinite af…
Sense and the science of nineteenth-century environmental determinism
In 1865, nineteen-year-old William Healey Dall was appointed second in command of the Western Union Telegraph Expedition Scientific Corps. The expedition aim was to gauge the feasibility of running a telegraph wire overland from California to Europe by way of the Bering Strait. U.S. Congress, operating under the aegis of the Smithsonian Institution, commissioned a Scientific Corps to capitalize on the expedition infrastructure through the collect…
Art (4 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · History of Science and Natural History (2 works) · Alexander von Humboldt Studies (1 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Art history (1 works)