{"title":"Los cuerpos indígenas entre textos y silencios. El caso de una niña Aché","authors":"M. Sardi, Diego Ballestero","doi":"10.3989/asclepio.2020.24","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The organization of collections of human remains of different “races”, during the end of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX century, was associated with archival work that enabled to certificate the authenticity of the specimens. These files contain individual data, such as the origin, sex, age and name, but also data about the collector or donor. This study analyses the different material and textual strategies carried out on a young Ache indigenous woman by the German anthropologist Robert Lehmann-Nitsche (1872-1938), responsible of the Seccion Antropologica of the Museo de La Plata (Argentina); strategies through which the anthropologist built the epistemological value of the indigenous body and his own scientific authority. We also discuss how certain practices were inspired in written and non-written instructions, but sometimes personal motivations interrupted procedures for elaborate scientific objects, leaving “silences” that can only recently be interpreted in light of the claims existing over museums that house human remains.","PeriodicalId":44082,"journal":{"name":"Asclepio-Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2020-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Asclepio-Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2020.24","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The organization of collections of human remains of different “races”, during the end of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX century, was associated with archival work that enabled to certificate the authenticity of the specimens. These files contain individual data, such as the origin, sex, age and name, but also data about the collector or donor. This study analyses the different material and textual strategies carried out on a young Ache indigenous woman by the German anthropologist Robert Lehmann-Nitsche (1872-1938), responsible of the Seccion Antropologica of the Museo de La Plata (Argentina); strategies through which the anthropologist built the epistemological value of the indigenous body and his own scientific authority. We also discuss how certain practices were inspired in written and non-written instructions, but sometimes personal motivations interrupted procedures for elaborate scientific objects, leaving “silences” that can only recently be interpreted in light of the claims existing over museums that house human remains.
在19世纪末和20世纪初,不同“种族”的人类遗骸的收集组织与档案工作有关,这些工作使证明标本的真实性成为可能。这些文件包含个人数据,如来源、性别、年龄和姓名,但也包含有关收集者或捐赠者的数据。本研究分析了德国人类学家Robert Lehmann-Nitsche(1872-1938)(负责阿根廷拉普拉塔博物馆(Museo de La Plata)的人类学部门)对一位年轻的阿契土著妇女进行的不同材料和文本策略;人类学家通过这些策略建立了土著身体的认识论价值和他自己的科学权威。我们还讨论了某些做法是如何在书面和非书面指示中受到启发的,但有时个人动机打断了精心设计的科学对象的程序,留下了“沉默”,这只能在最近根据对保存人类遗骸的博物馆的现有主张来解释。