Museum Matters Making and Unmaking Mexico’s National Collections / edited by Miruna Achim, Susan Deans-Smith, and Sandra Rozental.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rozental, Sandra, editor.

Deans-Smith, Susan, 1953- editor.

Achim, Miruna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National museums.

Museums--Acquisitions.

Material culture.

Material culture--Mexico.

Museums--Acquisitions--Mexico--History.

Museums.

National museums--Mexico--History.

Mexico.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of Arizona Press

Summary:

"Museum Matters tells the story of Mexico's national collections through the trajectories of its objects. The essays in this book show the many ways in which things matter and affect how Mexico imagines its past, present, and future"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Mexican Cabinet of Unlikely Things

I. CANONS

1. "A History Worthy of the Grandeur of the Spanish Nation": Collecting Mexican Antiquity in the Viceroyalty of New Spain

2. Forgery and the Science of the "Authentic"

3. Body Objects in Transit: National Pathology between Anatomy Museums and the Museo Nacional de México, 1853-1912

II. FRAGMENTS

4. The Tangled Journey of the Cross of Palenque

5. Past and Present at the Museo de Historia Natural

6. Clues and Gazes: Indigenous Faces in the Museo Nacional de Antropología

7. Unsettled Objects: The Pacific Collection at the Museo Nacional de las Culturas

III. DISTURBANCES

8. Tehuantepec on Display: Tlalocs, Theodolites, Fishing Traps, and the Cultures of Collecting in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

9. Conjuring Violence Away with Culture: The Purépecha National Emblem in the Museo Nacional de Antropología

10. A Monolith on the Street

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780816544271

0816544271

OCLC:

1257020162