Miserable San Damian-But What Treasures
The Life of Aleš Hrdlička's Peruvian Collection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2156398 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph P Feldman (0000-0001-6374-3870, corresponding author), Joseph Feldman |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 230-250 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02757206.2015.1130706 |
| OpenAlex | W2290863426 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 43 |
This article examines the lives of artefacts collected by physical anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička during his expeditions to Peru. In 1910 and 1913, Hrdlička travelled to the Andean nation to gather materials that could shed light on the peopling of the Americas, health and disease in pre-Columbian societies, and the purported racial 'types' of the region. The study focuses on cultural artefacts the scientist acquired, beginning with these materials' collection as specimens meant to reveal the racial prehistory of the Andes, and continuing with their classification, display, and exchange as museum objects at the Smithsonian Institution. My analysis of Hrdlička's Peruvian collection draws attention not only to how scientific representations of Peru and the Andes have shifted over time, but also to the way in which a focus on museum objects can elucidate changing notions about the cultural agency of prehistoric populations and their present-day descendants
Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Biological anthropology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · National museum · Prehistory · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Diverse Musicological Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Race, Genetics, and Society
The Hold Life Has
Vision, Race, and Modernity
The cultural biography of things
Race, culture, and evolution
Skull Wars
The Social Life of Things
Violence, Indigeneity, and Archaeological Interpretation in the Central Andes
Destination Culture
From Two Republics to One Divided
The life and writings of Dr. Aleš Hrdlička (1869–1939)
Reassembling the Social
The Historical Development of Andean Ethnology
Rhetorics of Value
Notes for a Networked Biography
Distribution and use of slings in pre-Columbian America, with descriptive catalogue of ancient Peruvian slings in the United States National Museum
Knowing Things
Prehistoric trepanation in the Cuzco region of Peru
Incas Sí, Indios No
Indigenous Mestizos
The Construction of a Ventriloquist's Image
Collecting a "Lost City" For Science
The Return of the Native
Life History of a Collection
Skull Wars
Cushing as part of the team
From Types to Populations
Cod, curtains, planes and experts
Intrinsic Social and Political Bias in the History of American Physical Anthropology
Revisiting Hrdlička and Boas
Object Diasporas, Resourcing Communities
Liberal Government and the Practical History of Anthropology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |