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- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Copyright
- © 2022 Berghahn Books
- ISSN
- 1755-2923
- eISSN
- 1755-2931
- DOI
- 10.3167/ajec.2022.310206
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
This article examines the various stagings of progress as exhibited at Argentina's International Centennial Exhibitions hosted in Buenos Aires in 1910. In preparation for the exhibitions, a wealthy port aristocracy oversaw renovations of the private and public, material and symbolic spaces of the city which transformed the capital into a political theatre. A chronology of the exhibitions (agriculture, industry, hygiene, railways, and the arts) and their accumulated symbols are read as multidimensional sites of encounter where a clash of contradictory interests and agencies interact. The text emerges out of a moment of ethnographic encounter and weaves together the words of my interlocutors with historical and theoretical analysis. In doing so, the article reflects from different angles upon the relationship between the rituals of showing and of spectatorship involved in the State's aesthetic performance of national progress.
Journal
Anthropological Journal of European Cultures – Berghahn Books
Published: Sep 1, 2022
Keywords: Argentina; centennial exhibitions; mise-en-scène; modernity; world fairs