Abstract
The growth of anthropology in Europe and the Americas in the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries coincided with the heyday of world’s fairs, international exhibitions, exposiciones internacionales, and expositions universelles (Allwood 1977:7–12, Findling and Pelle 1990:xv–xix, and Rydell 1992:1–10 discuss terminology). Indeed, certain world’s fairs served to popularize “anthropology,” acquainting the public with this unfamiliar term and apprising scholarly audiences of the concepts and principles of this emerging discipline. Mason’s (1890) article notifying his colleagues in North America about the wide range of anthropological topics embraced by the Exposition universelle internationale de 1889 à Paris is an early example of this link.
Highlights
The growth of anthropology in Europe and the Americas in the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries coincided with the heyday of world’s fairs, international exhibitions, exposiciones internacionales, and expositions universelles (Allwood 1977:7–12, Findling and Pelle 1990:xv–xix, and Rydell 1992:1–10 discuss terminology)
“It is intended that the Historic-American Exposition shall illustrate the civilization of the New Continent in the Pre-Columbian, Columbian, and PostColumbian Periods, while in the Historic-European Exposition will be shown the civilization of Europe, and the Iberian Peninsula, at the time when the new world was discovered and colonized” (Madrid Commission 1892:3)
Spain invited nations from throughout the Western Hemisphere to participate in its Exposición Histórico-Americana, and the response was favorable from the former Spanish colonies of the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America
Summary
The growth of anthropology in Europe and the Americas in the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries coincided with the heyday of world’s fairs, international exhibitions, exposiciones internacionales, and expositions universelles (Allwood 1977:7–12, Findling and Pelle 1990:xv–xix, and Rydell 1992:1–10 discuss terminology). This occurred at the Exposición Histórico-Americana in Madrid, a poorly known international exposition deserving more intensive study because of its exhibition of archaeological and to a lesser degree ethnographic collections from the Americas.
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