Cartógrafos y clérigos Misiones geodésicas y religiosas en el conocimiento geográfico del Ecuador (Siglos XVIII-XX)
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Between 1901 and 1906, a team of French military geographers visited\nEcuador to conduct the second geodesic survey of the arc of the equatorial\nmeridian, an effort that commemorated an eighteenth-century project while\nseeking to foment goodwill between the two republics. This article considers\nthe role of the Catholic Church, then under assault by the secularizing agenda\nof Ecuador�s Liberal administration, as both facilitator of the mission�s efforts\nas well as a cultural interlocutor communicating a local intellectual tradition,\nwhich I term the messianic-nationalist gaze. In particular, it traces the colonial\nroots of this cartographic sacralization, which features the redemption of the\ncountry�s Amazonian indigenous communities, while at the same time articulating\na defense of Ecuadorian territorial control of this disputed region.
Author: Capello, Ernesto
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1487800264