Research Catalog

Title

Museum matters : making and unmaking Mexico's national collections / edited by Miruna Achim, Susan Deans-Smith, and Sandra Rozental.

Publication

• Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Achim, Miruna
• Deans-Smith, Susan, 1953-
• Rozental, Sandra

Description

xi, 300 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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"--

Subject

• National museums > Mexico > History
• Museums > Acquisitions > History. > Mexico
• Material culture > Mexico
• Material culture
• Museums > Acquisitions
• National museums
• Mexico

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"A history worthy of the grandeur of the Spanish nation": collecting Mexican antiquity in the Viceroyalty of New Spain / Susan Deans-Smith -- Forgery and the science of the "authentic" / Miruna Achim and Bertina Olmedo Vera -- Body objects in transit: national pathology between anatomy museums and the Museo Nacional de México, 1853-1912 / Laura Cházaro -- The tangled journey of the Cross of Palenque / Christina Bueno -- Past and present at the Museo de Historia Natural / Frida Gorbach -- Clues and gazes: Indigenous faces in the Museo Nacional de Antropología / Haydeé López Hernández -- Unsettled objects: the Pacific Collection at the Museo Nacional de las Culturas / Carlos Mondragón -- Tehuantepec on display: Tlalocs, Theodolites, fishing traps, and the cultures of collecing in the mid-nineteenth centrury / Miruna Achim -- Conjuring violence away with culture: the Purépecha National Emblem in the Museo Nacional de Antopología / Mario Rufer -- A monolith on the street / Sandra Rozental.

Call Number

JFE 22-1094

ISBN

• 9780816539574
• 081653957X

LCCN

2021004392

OCLC

1240830323

Title

Museum matters : making and unmaking Mexico's national collections / edited by Miruna Achim, Susan Deans-Smith, and Sandra Rozental.

Publisher

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Achim, Miruna, editor.

Deans-Smith, Susan, 1953- editor.

Rozental, Sandra, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-1094