Homogenizing the world. Reflections on western discourse and global identity in the XIX century

Authors

  • Guillermo Cubero-Barrantes Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5377/koot.v1i14.15873

Keywords:

Cultural identity, Ethnicity, Culture and nationalism, Neocolonialism, Cultural development – Central America – History – XIX century, Colonialism – Central America, Western civilization – History, Art museums - Guatemala, Art museums – Europe, Museum activities

Abstract

The aim of this article is to place the reader in a nineteenth-century context of the Great Universal Exhibitions. First, as a historical background, the autor explain the rationalist origins of the museum in Europe and the frst museum in Guatemala in the eighteenth century. Also studies the context of the great western metropolises of the late nineteenth century where world exhibitions took place, especially in the United States. In the third instance, the autor analyzed the Central American situation, as well as the political and sociocultural materialization of the neocolonizing symbolism typical of these time.

Revista de Museología "Kóot" No.14 2023: 9-35

 

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Published

2023-05-17

How to Cite

Cubero-Barrantes, G. (2023). Homogenizing the world. Reflections on western discourse and global identity in the XIX century. Revista De Museología "Kóot&Quot;, 1(14), 9–35. https://doi.org/10.5377/koot.v1i14.15873

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