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Museum matters : making and unmaking Mexico's national collections / edited by Miruna Achim, Susan Deans-Smith, and Sandra Rozental.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National museums--Mexico--History.
- National museums.
- Museums--Acquisitions--Mexico--History.
- Museums.
- Material culture--Mexico.
- Material culture.
- Museums--Acquisitions.
- History.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- I Canons
- 1 "A History Worthy of the Grandeur of the Spanish Nation": Collecting Mexican Antiquity in the Viceroyalty of New Spain p. 25 / Susan Deans-Smith
- 2 Forgery and the Science of the "Authentic" p. 55 / Miruna Achim and Bertina Olmedo Vera
- 3 Body Objects in Transit: National Pathology between Anatomy Museums and the Museo Nacional de México, 1853-1912 p. 81 / Laura Cházaro
- II Fragments
- 4 The Tangled Journey of the Cross of Palenque p. 111 / Christina Bueno
- 5 Past and Present at the Museo de Historia Natural p. 135 / Frida Gorbach
- 6 Clues and Gazes: Indigenous Faces in the Museo Nacional de Antropología p. 159 / Haydeé López Hernández
- 7 Unsettled Objects: The Pacific Collection at the Museo Nacionai de las Culturas p. 191 / Carlos Mondkagón
- III Disturbances
- 8 Tehuantepec on Display: Haloes, Theodolites, Fishing Traps, and the Cultures of Collecting in the Mid-Nineteenth Century p. 217 / Miruna Achim
- 9 Conjuring Violence Away with Culture: The Purépecha National Emblem in the Museo Nacional de Antropología p. 243 / Mario Rufer
- 10 A Monolith on the Street p. 265 / Sandra Rozental.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780816544271
- 0816544271
- Publisher Number:
- 40030749149
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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