Contextualising the “American race” in the Atlantic

This paper addresses the place of the Bavarian scholar Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868) within the complex process of development of a ‘natural history of man’ in the nineteenth century. Martius’ understanding of natural history primarily focused on the notion of ‘American race’, i.e....

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Main Author:	Raphael Uchôa
Format:	Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:	Danish English Norwegian Swedish
Published:	Lärdomshistoriska samfundet 2020
Subjects:	Carl von Martius transatlantic science Romantic science Iberian colonial sources American race nineteenth-century Brazil History of scholarship and learning. The humanities AZ20-999 South Atlantic Ocean
Online Access:	https://doaj.org/article/a1ebba2ad5ee498590372079c2bd8c18

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spelling	ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:a1ebba2ad5ee498590372079c2bd8c18 2023-07-23T04:21:46+02:00 Contextualising the “American race” in the Atlantic Raphael Uchôa 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/a1ebba2ad5ee498590372079c2bd8c18 DA EN NO SV dan eng nor swe Lärdomshistoriska samfundet https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/21559 https://doaj.org/toc/0076-1648 https://doaj.org/toc/2004-4852 0076-1648 2004-4852 https://doaj.org/article/a1ebba2ad5ee498590372079c2bd8c18 Lychnos (2020) Carl von Martius transatlantic science Romantic science Iberian colonial sources American race nineteenth-century Brazil History of scholarship and learning. The humanities AZ20-999 article 2020 ftdoajarticles 2023-07-02T00:33:59Z This paper addresses the place of the Bavarian scholar Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868) within the complex process of development of a ‘natural history of man’ in the nineteenth century. Martius’ understanding of natural history primarily focused on the notion of ‘American race’, i.e. one of the four or five races described by J.F. Blumenbach and C. Linnaeus. In this paper, I elucidate the geopolitical and intellectual coordinates which circumscribed Martius’ thought. I call the attention to the influence of the so-called German ‘Romantic science,’ as well as to Iberian sources which played a crucial role in Martius’ construction of the notion of the ‘American man.’ Martius’ travel narratives created grounds for a transatlantic natural history, in which the unit of analysis is the South Atlantic Ocean and involves a complex and archaic consortium of monarchs. This geopolitical alignment was circumscribed by religious, economic, and scientific ties which connected several nation-states and empires, including Austria, Bavaria, Brazil and Portugal. Article in Journal/Newspaper South Atlantic Ocean Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles
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description	This paper addresses the place of the Bavarian scholar Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868) within the complex process of development of a ‘natural history of man’ in the nineteenth century. Martius’ understanding of natural history primarily focused on the notion of ‘American race’, i.e. one of the four or five races described by J.F. Blumenbach and C. Linnaeus. In this paper, I elucidate the geopolitical and intellectual coordinates which circumscribed Martius’ thought. I call the attention to the influence of the so-called German ‘Romantic science,’ as well as to Iberian sources which played a crucial role in Martius’ construction of the notion of the ‘American man.’ Martius’ travel narratives created grounds for a transatlantic natural history, in which the unit of analysis is the South Atlantic Ocean and involves a complex and archaic consortium of monarchs. This geopolitical alignment was circumscribed by religious, economic, and scientific ties which connected several nation-states and empires, including Austria, Bavaria, Brazil and Portugal.
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author	Raphael Uchôa
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title	Contextualising the “American race” in the Atlantic
title_short	Contextualising the “American race” in the Atlantic
title_full	Contextualising the “American race” in the Atlantic
title_fullStr	Contextualising the “American race” in the Atlantic
title_full_unstemmed	Contextualising the “American race” in the Atlantic
title_sort	contextualising the “american race” in the atlantic
publisher	Lärdomshistoriska samfundet
publishDate	2020
url	https://doaj.org/article/a1ebba2ad5ee498590372079c2bd8c18
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Contextualising the “American race” in the Atlantic

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