COLOMBIAN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHY: THREE VERSIONS AND THE SAME TRADITION, 1827-1842
Por:
Alba Patricia Cardona Zuluaga
Publicada:
23 ene 2017
Resumen:
Based on a methodology that contrasts book publishing, this article aims
to study the knowledge of national geography in Colombia based on
versions established from the end of the 18th century to the beginning
of the 19th century. More than being objective knowledge, the nation's
geography constituted a crucible of several discourses which were still
intertwined; they were part of the literary genre and of techniques
comprised by rhetoric, and they were not part of an autonomous
scientific discipline having its own procedures and instruments.
Instead, it was a mixture of narrations of voyages, descriptions, and
historical data and information whose purpose was to increase citizens'
fervor and provide a common representation of the territory of people
who were accustomed to learning more by hearing than by seeing.
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