The “Archaic” and the Contemporary: a Reading of History of Science in a Post-Colonial Key
At the end of the 19th century, a series of phenomena that challenged the classification were spread profusely in Mexico City, since they were like in the middle, confusingly affecting the sense of concepts such as “science”, “magic”, “witchcraft”, “religion”: magnetism, hypnotism, automatism, somna...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Historia
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuariohistoria/article/view/40391 |
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| Sumario: | At the end of the 19th century, a series of phenomena that challenged the classification were spread profusely in Mexico City, since they were like in the middle, confusingly affecting the sense of concepts such as “science”, “magic”, “witchcraft”, “religion”: magnetism, hypnotism, automatism, somnambulism, suggestion. The purpose is to make a reading in a post-colonial key of these phenomena and of that historical moment. To do this, I dwell at the shifts that the post-colonial turn produced in my research work, in the strategies I implemented to go beyond the archive-repository, beyond the continuous temporality of history-process, to look at how categories of that imaginary geography appear in the most unexpected places, demarcating the territory of the same and the other and dividing the world into the civilized and the primitive, the dichotomy that the 19th century normalized. At the same time, as an effect of that turn, I follow the uncertain connections in an attempt to open the narrative towards other articulations and interpretive possibilities. |
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