Collecting from the Margins : Material Culture in a Latin American Context.
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- 9781611487343
- 860.998
- AM330
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on Translations -- 1 Sacking the Botanical Expedition -- 2 An "Immense Museum" or an "Immense Tomb"? -- 3 Of bayaderas, congaïs, and fumerías -- 4 "That heteroclite assembly" -- 5 Postcards, Autographs, and Modernismo -- 6 Delmira Agustini, Gender, and the Poetics of Collecting -- 7 "I have put all I possess at the disposal of the people's struggle" -- 8 Antropofagia, Bricolage, Collage -- 9 From the Space of the Wunderkammer to Macondo's Wonder Rooms -- 10 Collecting Revisited (and Left Behind) -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Collecting from the Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American is the first anthology to provide a sustained discussion of the modern practice of collecting from a specifically Latin American perspective.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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