Parution : Museum matters : making and unmaking Mexico’s national collections

Créateur
- Achim, Miruna. Éditeur scientifique
- Deans-Smith, Susan (1953-….). Éditeur scientifique
- Rozenthal, Sandra. Éditeur scientifique
- Bueno, Christina. Collaborateur
- Cházaro, Laura. Collaborateur
- Gorbach, Frida. Collaborateur
- López Hernández, Haydeé. Collaborateur
- Mondragón, Carlos. Collaborateur
- Olmedo Vera, Bertina. Collaborateur
- Rufer, Mario. Collaborateur
Résumé de l’éditeur
This is a book about objects. Stones, ruins, bones, mummies, mannequins, statues, photographs, fakes, instruments, and natural history specimens all formed part of Mexico’s National Museum complex at different moments across two centuries of collecting and display.
Museum Matters traces the emergence, consolidation, and dispersal of this national museum complex by telling the stories of its objects. Objects that have been separated over time are brought back together in this book in order to shed light on the interactions and processes that have forged things into symbols of science, aesthetics, and politics. The contributors to this volume illuminate how collections came into being or ceased to exist over time, or how objects moved in and out of collections and museum spaces. They explore what it means to move things physically and spatially, as well as conceptually and symbolically.
Museum Matters unravels the concept of the national museum. By unmaking the spaces, frameworks, and structures that form the complicated landscape of national museums, this volume brings a new way to understand the storage, displays, and claims about the Mexican nation’s collections today.
Sommaire
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: A Mexican Cabinet of Unlikely Things 3
Miruna Achim, Susan Deans-Smith, Sandra Rozental
I. CANONS
- “A History Worthy of the Grandeur of the Spanish Nation”:
Collecting Mexican Antiquity in the Viceroyalty of New Spain 25
Susan Deans-Smith - Forgery and the Science of the “Authentic” 55
Miruna Achim and Bertina Olmedo Vera - Body Objects in Transit: National Pathology between
Anatomy Museums and the Museo Nacional de México,
1853–1912 81
Laura Cházaro
II. FRAGMENTS - The Tangled Journey of the Cross of Palenque 111
Christina Bueno - Past and Present at the Museo de Historia Natural 135
Frida Gorbach - Clues and Gazes: Indigenous Faces in the Museo Nacional de Antropología 159
Haydeé López Hernández - Unsettled Objects: The Pacific Collection at the Museo Nacional de las Culturas 191
Carlos Mondragón
III. DISTURBANCES - Tehuantepec on Display: Tlalocs, Theodolites, Fishing Traps, and the Cultures of Collecting in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 217
Miruna Achim - Conjuring Violence Away with Culture: The Purépecha National Emblem in the Museo Nacional de Antropología 243
Mario Rufer - A Monolith on the Street 265
Sandra Rozental
Contributors 289
Index 293
Présentation
Informations pratiques
- Éditeur : Tucson : The University of Arizona press
- Date de parution : 2021
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xi, 300 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
- Annexe(s) : Bibliogr. Index
- ISBN 9780816539574. – ISBN 081653957X (rel.)
Localisations
- PARIS-BnF : Tolbiac – Rez-de-jardin – magasin : 2022-79053
- PARIS-Médiathèque MQB
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Olivier Jacquot (4 mars 2023). Parution : Museum matters : making and unmaking Mexico’s national collections. Amoxcalli. Consulté le 18 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/b3w5