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Collecting Across Cultures : Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Early Modern Americas SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (390 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812204964
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Collecting Across CulturesDDC classification:
  • 930.1
LOC classification:
  • GN406 -- .C65 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I. COLLECTING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD -- Chapter 1. Seeing the World in a Room: Looking at Exotica in Early Modern Collections -- Chapter 2. Collecting Global Icons: The Case of the Exotic Parasol -- Chapter 3. Ancient Europe and Native Americans: A Comparative Reflection on the Roots of Antiquarianism -- II. COLLECTING AND THE FORMATION OF GLOBAL NETWORKS -- Chapter 4. Aztec Regalia and the Reformation of Display -- Chapter 5. Dead Natures or Still Lifes? Science, Art, and Collecting in the Spanish Baroque -- Chapter 6. Crying a Muck: Collecting, Domesticity, and Anomie in Seventeenth-Century Banten and England -- Chapter 7. Collecting and Translating Knowledge Across Cultures: Capuchin Missionary Images of Early Modern Central Africa, 1650-1750 -- Chapter 8. European Wonders at the Court of Siam -- III. COLLECTING PEOPLE -- Chapter 9. Collecting and Accounting: Representing Slaves as Commodities in Jamaica, 1674-1784 -- Chapter 10. ''Collecting Americans'': The Anglo-American Experience from Cabot to NAGPRA -- IV. EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS OF AMERICANA IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES -- Chapter 11. Spanish Collections of Americana in the Late Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 12. Martínez compañón and His Illustrated "Museum -- Chapter 13. Europe Rediscovers Latin America: Collecting Artifacts and Views in the First Decades of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 14. Image and Experience in the Land of Nopal and Maguey: Collecting and Portraying Mexico in Two Nineteenth-Century French Albums -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Authored by historians, art historians, and historians of science working in the United States, 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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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I. COLLECTING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD -- Chapter 1. Seeing the World in a Room: Looking at Exotica in Early Modern Collections -- Chapter 2. Collecting Global Icons: The Case of the Exotic Parasol -- Chapter 3. Ancient Europe and Native Americans: A Comparative Reflection on the Roots of Antiquarianism -- II. COLLECTING AND THE FORMATION OF GLOBAL NETWORKS -- Chapter 4. Aztec Regalia and the Reformation of Display -- Chapter 5. Dead Natures or Still Lifes? Science, Art, and Collecting in the Spanish Baroque -- Chapter 6. Crying a Muck: Collecting, Domesticity, and Anomie in Seventeenth-Century Banten and England -- Chapter 7. Collecting and Translating Knowledge Across Cultures: Capuchin Missionary Images of Early Modern Central Africa, 1650-1750 -- Chapter 8. European Wonders at the Court of Siam -- III. COLLECTING PEOPLE -- Chapter 9. Collecting and Accounting: Representing Slaves as Commodities in Jamaica, 1674-1784 -- Chapter 10. ''Collecting Americans'': The Anglo-American Experience from Cabot to NAGPRA -- IV. EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS OF AMERICANA IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES -- Chapter 11. Spanish Collections of Americana in the Late Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 12. Martínez compañón and His Illustrated "Museum -- Chapter 13. Europe Rediscovers Latin America: Collecting Artifacts and Views in the First Decades of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 14. Image and Experience in the Land of Nopal and Maguey: Collecting and Portraying Mexico in Two Nineteenth-Century French Albums -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

Authored by historians, art historians, and historians of science working in the United States, 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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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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