Collecting Across Cultures

, by Bleichmar, Daniela; Mancall, Peter C.; Baker, Malcolm

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ISBN: 9780812243055 | 0812243056
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/17/2011

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Authored by historians, art historians, and historians of science working in the U.S., 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.

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List of Illustrations	p. xi
Foreword	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Collecting and the Construction of Knowledge in the Early Modern World
Seeing the World in a Room: Looking at Exotica in Early Modern Collections	p. 15
Collecting Global Icons: The Case of the Exotic Parasol	p. 31
Ancient Europe and Native Americans: A Comparative Reflection on the Roots of Antiquarianism	p. 58
Collecting and the Formation of Global Networks
Aztec Regalia and the Reformation of Display	p. 83
Dead Natures or Still Lifes? Science, Art, and Collecting in the Spanish Baroque	p. 99
Crying a Muck: Collecting, Domesticity, and Anomie in Seventeenth-Century Banten and England	p. 116
Collecting and Translating Knowledge Across Cultures: Capuchin Missionary Images of Early Modern Central Africa, 1650-1750	p. 134
European Wonders at the Court of Siam	p. 155
Collecting People
Collecting and Accounting: Representing Slaves as Commodities in Jamaica, 1674-1784	p. 177
ôCollecting Americansö: The Anglo-American Experience from Cabot to NAGPRA	p. 192
European Collections of Americana in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Spanish Collections of Americana in the Late Eighteenth Century	p. 217
Martínez Compañón and His Illustrated ôMuseumö	p. 236
Europe Rediscovers Latin America: Collecting Artifacts and Views in the First Decades of the Nineteenth Century	p. 254
Image and Experience in the Land of Nopal and Maguey: Collecting and Portraying Mexico in Two Nineteenth-Century French Albums	p. 269
Notes	p. 289
List of Contributors	p. 339
Index	p. 343
Acknowledgments	p. 363
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