The National Museum of Peru as a technology of colonialist power, 1826-1828

  • Jeremy Dioses Campaña Universidad Federal Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.
Keywords: national museum, colonialism, fetishism, indigenous materiality

Abstract

In this paper, we will analyze the agency of the National Museum of Peru in its genesis and its first years of existence, with the aim of examining the permanence of colonial thought and its interference in the disarticulation of the autochthonous subject through the separation of this subject from its materiality. In this sense, the originality of the text is not to be found in the discussions already developed by Peruvians on decolonization, but in the analysis of colonialism and its interference in the aforementioned separation between the native subject and its materiality during the nineteenth century. The concern to explore this subjective reality has been motivated by the already existing theoretical discussions on the necessity of epistemological production for the existence of the subject

Published
2025-07-25
How to Cite
Dioses CampañaJ. (2025). The National Museum of Peru as a technology of colonialist power, 1826-1828. Revista Del Archivo General De La Nación, 39(2), 7-27. https://doi.org/10.37840/ragn.v39i2.171
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