@article{Depetris2010,
  author    = {Depetris, Carolina},
  title     = {El orientalismo como episteme},
  series = {Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {XI},
  journal   = {Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {21},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-51730},
  pages     = {9 -- 22},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {One of the most persistent mysteries in America, has been the origin of vernacular peoples and their buildings. Elucidate such mysteries has been the aim of many voyageurs. Between 1832 and 1836, following the current of travellers such as Alexander von Humbold, Fr{\´e}deric von Waldeck (supposedly an Czech Baron), found his way to sell an exploratory project regarding the Mayan ruins of Palenque and Uxmal, to the Mexican government. About this expedition, he leaves testimony in his numerous diaries which have remained inedited so far, and also in the book entitled Voyage pittoresque et arch{\´e}ologique dans la Province d' Yucatan (1838). He essays in these writings to give some explanations about the origin of the Mayas. There, he continuously refers to Humboldt's work. In a previous article, we saw how Weldeck assimilates the origin of the Mayas to one of the greatest biblical mysteries of historical root, as it is the one regarding the lost tribes of Israel. In this work, we present his second grand hypothesis: that one which links Yucatan to India, by means of interpreting and representing American reality having its definite "episteme" in European Orientalism.},
  language  = {es}
}