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Collecting across cultures : material exchanges in the early modern atlantic world /

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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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Bleichmar, Daniela; Mancall, Peter C.
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2011]
©2011
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: The early modern americas
Subjects:
Antiquities > Collectors and collecting.
Exchange > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners > History.
Material culture > Collectors and collecting.
Preservation of materials.
Alte Geschichte, Arch ologie.
Commerce.
Culture and History of non-European Territories.
Exchange.
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners.
Global History.
History.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812204964
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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.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: 12 color, 65 b/w illus.
ISBN: 9780812204964
Index Number: GN406
CLC: C912.4
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
List of Illustrations --
Foreword /
Introduction /
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 /
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 /
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 /
Chapter 11. Spanish Collections of Americana in the Late Eighteenth Century /
Chapter 12. Mart nez Compa n 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 --
Acknowledgments.

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