%0 Journal Article
%T World¡¯s Fairs and Latin American Archaeology: Costa Rica at the 1892 Madrid Exposition
%A David R. Watters
%A Oscar Fonseca Zamora
%J Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
%D 2005
%I Ubiquity Press
%R 10.5334/bha.15102
%X 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¨C12, Findling and Pelle 1990:xv¨Cxix, and Rydell 1992:1¨C10 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 ¨¤ Paris is an early example of this link.
%K world's fairs
%K expositions
%U http://archaeologybulletin.uplabs1.com/article/view/155