Title Collecting across cultures : material exchanges in the early modern Atlantic world / edited by Daniela Bleichmar and Peter C. Mancall

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 361 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps Series The Early Modern Americas Early modern Americas. Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword / Baker, Malcolm -- Introduction / Bleichmar, Daniela ; Mancall, Peter C. -- Chapter 1. Seeing the World in a Room: Looking at Exotica in Early Modern Collections / Bleichmar, Daniela -- Chapter 2. Collecting Global Icons: The Case of the Exotic Parasol / Schmidt, Benjamin -- Chapter 3. Ancient Europe and Native Americans: A Comparative Reflection on the Roots of Antiquarianism / Schnapp, Alain -- Chapter 4. Aztec Regalia and the Reformation of Display / Johnson, Carina L. -- Chapter 5. Dead Natures or Still Lifes? Science, Art, and Collecting in the Spanish Baroque / Marcaida, José Ramón ; Pimentel, Juan -- Chapter 6. Crying a Muck: Collecting, Domesticity, and Anomie in Seventeenth-Century Banten and England / Batchelor, Robert -- Chapter 7. Collecting and Translating Knowledge Across Cultures: Capuchin Missionary Images of Early Modern Central Africa, 1650-1750 / Fromont, Cécile -- Chapter 8. European Wonders at the Court of Siam / Benson, Sarah -- Chapter 9. Collecting and Accounting: Representing Slaves as Commodities in Jamaica, 1674-1784 / Burnard, Trevor -- Chapter 10. ''Collecting Americans'': The Anglo-American Experience from Cabot to NAGPRA / Mancall, Peter C. -- Chapter 11. Spanish Collections of Americana in the Late Eighteenth Century / Carro, Paz Cabello -- Chapter 12. Martínez Compañón and His Illustrated ''Museum'' / Trever, Lisa ; Pillsbury, Joanne -- Chapter 13. Europe Rediscovers Latin America: Collecting Artifacts and Views in the First Decades of the Nineteenth Century / Riviale, Pascal -- Chapter 14. Image and Experience in the Land of Nopal and Maguey: Collecting and Portraying Mexico in Two Nineteenth-Century French Albums / O'Nei, Megan E. -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments Summary Authored by historians, art historians, and historians of science working in the United States, Europe, and South America, each of the fourteen essays in Collecting Across Cultures explores a specific aspect of the history of collecting, collections, or collectors in the early modern period Notes OldControl:muse9780812204964 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Exchange -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History First contact (Anthropology) -- History Preservation of materials. Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting Material culture -- Collectors and collecting preserving. preservation (function) HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775) Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting Commerce Exchange First contact (Anthropology) Preservation of materials SUBJECT Atlantic Ocean Region -- Commerce -- History Subject Atlantic Ocean Region Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Mancall, Peter C., editor. Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973- editor. ISBN 9780812204964 0812204964 9781283896443 1283896443

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