Abstract

MAILHE, Alejandra. José Imbelloni and the Building of a Reader Americanist Public. Prismas [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.1, pp.75-95. ISSN 1852-0499.

This paper focuses on the “Biblioteca Humanior del americanista moderno,” the editorial project directed by José Imbelloni between 1936 and 1959, primarily by asking whom Imbelloni interpellates as possible readers, which concept of Americanism takes shape, and why he defines anthropology as a discipline, with all of the social alterities that represent his object of study. Imbelloni’s collection aims to cultivate not only future anthropologists, but also a wider educated public sensitive to the American archeological legacy, to the aboriginal racial legacy of Argentina and the continent, and to living folklore, among other subjects. By interpellating that double reader, “Humanior” expands what is American in the massive market of the period by resting on conditions created by other texts inside and outside Argentine anthropology, including the writings of Ricardo Rojas in the 1920s and 1930s. At the same time, Imbelloni reacts, from a scientific position, against any idealization of American nature and human beings, including the romantic vision of alterity and aboriginal vindications that have an emancipatory character in the present.

Keywords : José Imbelloni; Indigenism; History of the Book; Argentina.

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