| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 300 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Project MUSE platform, viewed June 20, 2024) |
| Subject |
Material culture -- Mexico
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Museums -- Acquisitions -- Mexico -- History
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National museums -- Mexico -- History
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HISTORY / General
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National museums
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Museums -- Acquisitions
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Material culture
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Mexico
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Achim, Miruna, editor.
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Deans-Smith, Susan, 1953- editor.
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Rozental, Sandra, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780816544271 |
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0816544271 |
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