Museum Matters

Making and Unmaking Mexico's National Collections
Herausgeber: Achim, Miruna; Rozental, Sandra; Deans-Smith, Susan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. This book traces the emergence, consolidation, and dispersal of this national museum complex by telling the stories of its objects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780816539574
• ISBN-10: 081653957X
• Artikelnr.: 61560955

Autorenporträt

Miruna Achima is an associate professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa in Mexico City. She is the author of From Idols to Antiquity: Forging the National Museum of Mexico. Susan Deans-Smith is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the co-editor of Race and Classification: The Case of Mexican America. Sandra Rozental is an associate professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa in Mexico City. Her research explores national patrimony, cultural property, and conflicting claims generated by the extraction of archaeological objects from local contexts.