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Author:   Daniela Bleichmar ,  Peter C. Mancall
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.139kg
ISBN:  

9780812243055

ISBN 10:   0812243056
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   14 April 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword —Malcolm Baker Introduction —Daniela Bleichmar and Peter C. Mancall 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 —Daniela Bleichmar Chapter 2. Collecting Global Icons: The Case of the Exotic Parasol —Benjamin Schmidt Chapter 3. Ancient Europe and Native Americans: A Comparative Reflection on the Roots of Antiquarianism —Alain Schnapp II. COLLECTING AND THE FORMATION OF GLOBAL NETWORKS Chapter 4. Aztec Regalia and the Reformation of Display —Carina L. Johnson Chapter 5. Dead Natures or Still Lifes? Science, Art, and Collecting in the Spanish Baroque —José Ramón Marcaida and Juan Pimentel Chapter 6. Crying a Muck: Collecting, Domesticity, and Anomie in Seventeenth-Century Banten and England —Robert Batchelor Chapter 7. Collecting and Translating Knowledge Across Cultures: Capuchin Missionary Images of Early Modern Central Africa, 1650-1750 —Cécile Fromont Chapter 8. European Wonders at the Court of Siam —Sarah Benson III. COLLECTING PEOPLE Chapter 9. Collecting and Accounting: Representing Slaves as Commodities in Jamaica, 1674-1784 —Trevor Burnard Chapter 10. ''Collecting Americans'': The Anglo-American Experience from Cabot to NAGPRA —Peter C. Mancall IV. EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS OF AMERICANA IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES Chapter 11. Spanish Collections of Americana in the Late Eighteenth Century —Paz Cabello Carro Chapter 12. Martínez Compañón and His Illustrated ''Museum'' —Lisa Trever and Joanne Pillsbury Chapter 13. Europe Rediscovers Latin America: Collecting Artifacts and Views in the First Decades of the Nineteenth Century —Pascal Riviale Chapter 14. Image and Experience in the Land of Nopal and Maguey: Collecting and Portraying Mexico in Two Nineteenth-Century French Albums —Megan E. O'Neil Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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The essays in Collecting Across Cultures offer a fascinating new perspective on Europe's encounters with an ethnically and culturally diverse early modern world... Collections and the objects within them are thus themselves imaginatively reconceptualized as sites of encounter and exchange. -British Journal for the History of Science

""The essays in Collecting Across Cultures offer a fascinating new perspective on Europe's encounters with an ethnically and culturally diverse early modern world. . . . Collections and the objects within them are thus themselves imaginatively reconceptualized as sites of encounter and exchange.""—British Journal for the History of Science

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Daniela Bleichmar is Associate Professor of Art History and History at the University of Southern California. Peter C. Mancall is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.

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