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Imagining a new natural history : Latin American cultural production in the Anthropocene / edited by Nicolás Campisi and Lucas Mertehikian.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Latin American--Themes, motives.
- Art, Latin American.
- Natural history in art.
- Natural history--Latin America.
- Natural history.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.
- Nature.
- Climatic changes in literature.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Climatic changes--Latin America.
- Climatic changes.
- Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Latin American cultural production in the Anthropocene
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- "Offering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions, this volume shows how writers, artists, and curators are rethinking approaches to the discipline that cast humans and nature as separate entities"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The new natural history / Nicolás Campisi and Lucas MertehikianThe museum of modernity: Photographic archive, patrimonial collection, and Selk’nam genocide / Ignacio Pastén López and Ignacio Veraguas CaripanÁrbol Ramón, the axolotl/ajolote, and LEGOs : Mexico City’s Papalote Children’s Museum / Emily Hind
- A contemporary cabinet of curiosities : Play, improbability, and the reinvention of the world in Liliana Porter’s El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves / Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos
- Reactivating Richard Spruce’s Amazonian biocultural archive / Luciana Martins
- Poetics of an expanded humanity / Florencia Garramuño
- Telling natural histories in Crispín Amador Ramírez’s El infierno del paraíso and Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s Woman of Light / Matylda Figlerowicz
- The necrospace of the Anthropocene : An anachronistic archive / Gisela Heffes
- The ecological novel : Unearthing a Latin American land archive / Carlos Fonseca
- Disorder of time in the anticolonial museum / Gabriel Giorgi
- Emilio Renart’s new sense of space / Florencia Malbrán
- Exhibitions in the face of the climate crisis : How is the Anthropocene shaping hemispheric aesthetics? / Valeria Meiller
- The act of collecting in Latin American documentary / Antonio Gómez
- Marias and Joões : Naming in Maria Esther Maciel’s poetic encyclopedias / Nathaniel Wolfson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 1, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Imagining a new natural history
- ISBN:
- 9781683405788
- 1683405781
- 9781683405917
- 1683405919
- OCLC:
- 1528574258
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