Sombrio, Mariana M. O. (Author)
HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology
Volume: 10
Issue: 1
Pages: 33-69
This paper will explore the significance of the expeditions under- taken by Wanda Hanke (1893-1958) in South America, of the networks she established in the region, as well as of her contributions to ethnological studies, in particular her compilation of extensive data and collections. Through Hanke's experience, it is possible to elucidate aspects of the history of ethnology and that of the history of museums in Brazil, as well as to emphasize the status of female participation in these areas. Wanda Hanke spent 25 years of her life studying the indigenous groups of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay and collecting ethnological objects for natural history museums. Trained in medicine and philosophy, she began to dedicate herself to ethnological studies in her forties, and she travelled alone, an uncommon characteristic among female scientists in the 1940s, in Brazil.
...MoreArticle Maria Margaret Lopes (2016) Gender, Collecting Practices, Museums. HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology (pp. 1-9).
Similar Citations
Article
Fellers, Gary M.;
(2014)
Animal Taxa Named for Rollo H. Beck
Book
Zephyr Frank;
Jacob Blanc;
Frederico Freitas;
(2018)
Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay
Article
Cameron, Fiona Ruth;
(2014)
From “Dead Things” to Immutable, Combinable Mobiles: H.D. Skinner, the Otago Museum and University and the Governance of Māori Populations
Article
Brinkman, P. D.;
Vizcaíno, S. F.;
(2014)
Clemente Onelli's Sketch Map and His First-Hand, Retrospective Account of an Early Fossil-Hunting Expedition along the Río Santa Cruz, Southern Patagonia, 1888–1889
Article
Cote, Stephen;
(2013)
A War for Oil in the Chaco, 1932--1935
Book
Susanne Köstering;
(2018)
Ein Museum für Weltnatur: Die Geschichte des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg
Article
Tomás Bartoletti;
(2024)
Hunting and Masculine Knowledge: A Swiss Naturalist in South America and the Coloniality of Nineteenth-Century Science
Article
Chaves, Cleide de Lima;
(2013)
Poder e saúde na América do Sul: os congressos sanitários internacionais, 1870--1889
Book
Renata Motta;
(2016)
Social mobilization, global capitalism and struggles over food: A comparative study of social movements
Article
Massarani, Luisa;
(2005)
Ciência, tecnologia, parlamento e os diálogos com os cidadãos
Article
Freites, Yajaira;
(2008)
Relaciones científicas de medicina veterinaria venezolana con sus pares latinoamericanos: México y el Cono Sur (1933--1955)
Book
Cristina Ferrão;
José Paulo Monteiro Soares;
(2019)
Natterer on the Austrian Expedition to Brazil (1817-1835)
Article
Miriam Junghans;
(2016)
Among Birds and Net(Work)S: Material and Social Practices in the Trajectory of Ornithologist Emilie Snethlage (1868–1929)
Thesis
Marissa Helene Petrou;
(2016)
Disciplines of Collection: Founding the Dresden Museum for Zoology, Anthropology and Ethnology in Imperial Germany
Chapter
Irurozqui, Marta;
(2001)
“Desvío al Paraíso”: Citizenship and Social Darwinism in Bolivia, 1880-1920
Book
Pezzati, Alessandro;
(2002)
Adventures in Photography: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Article
Sebastian Dorsch;
(2017)
Wissen produzieren, lokalisieren und imaginieren. Von „falschen Karten“ und „wissenschaftlichen Expeditionen“ in der Auseinandersetzung um Guyana (1880er bis 1900er Jahre)
Article
Petra Lukeneder;
Irene Liebhart;
Franz Ottner;
Anika Mikes;
Petra Heinz;
Radek Polách;
(2023)
The historical power of the natural science collection of Dominik Bilimek at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)
Article
Feklova, Tatyana Yurievna;
(2014)
The Expedition of Ilya G. Voznesensky to Russian America in 1839--1849 and the Formation of the American Collections in St. Petersburg Academic Museums
Article
Bastos, Francisco Inácio;
Sá, Magali Romero;
(2011)
The Scientist as Historian: Paulo Vanzolini and the Origins of Zoology in Brazil
Be the first to comment!