From Idols to Antiquity - Forging the National Museum of Mexico

Informationen zum Autor Miruna Achim is a professor of humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana–Cuajimalpa in Mexico City. She is the author of several books on science history in Spanish and coauthor of Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America with Martina Will de Chaparro. Klappentext Miruna Achim is a professor of¿humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana–Cuajimalpa in Mexico City. She is the author of several books on science history in Spanish and coauthor of¿Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America¿with¿Martina Will de Chaparro. Zusammenfassung In From Idols to Antiquity! Miruna Achim explores the origins and development of the National Museum of Mexico and the complicated histories of Mexican antiquities during the first half of the nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Uses of a National Museum 1. Genealogies 2. Measures of Worth 3. Collecting the Ruins of Palenque 4. Modes of Display 5. José Fernando Ramírez, Keeper of the Archive 6. Whose Museum? Epilogue: The Invention of Mexican Antiquities Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Miruna Achim
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781496203373
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0337-3
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: The Mexican Experience; The Mexican Experience
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous