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PublisherBucknell University Press

ISBN-101611487358

ISBN-139781611487350

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LanguageEnglish

TopicCaribbean & Latin American, General, Customs & Traditions, Literary Criticism, Social Science, Antiques & Collectibles

AuthorMaría Mercedes Andrade

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Publication Year2018

Reviews"Like the Wunderkammern, this edition gathers essays from far and wide to reflect on how radically things change when you turn the lens and view Latin America through its collections and individual's pursuit of the art of collecting." --Silvia Spitta, author of Misplaced Objects: Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas and Between Two Waters:

FormatTrade Paperback

Book TitleCollecting from the Margins : Material Culture in a Latin American Context

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Table Of ContentA Note on Translations List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction by Maria Mercedes Andrade Chapter 1: Sacking the Botanical Expedition: Natural and Military History in the First Museum of Colombia by Felipe Martinez-Pinzon Chapter 2: An "Immense Museum" or an "Immense Tomb?" War and the Rhetoric of Continuity in the Writings of Francisco Moreno by Javier Uriarte Chapter 3: Of bayaderas, congais, and fumerias: "Virtual" Collecting in De Marsella a Tokio: Sensaciones de Egipto, la India, la China y el Japon, by Enrique Gomez Carrillo by Olga Vilella Chapter 4: "That heteroclite assembly": Collecting, Modernity, and "The Savage Mind" in De sobremesa by Maria Mercedes Andrade Chapter 5: Postcards, Autographs, and Modernismo: Ruben Dario on Popular Collecting and Textual Practices by Andrew Reynolds Chapter 6: Delmira Agustini, Gender, and the Poetics of Collecting by Shelley Garrigan Chapter 7: "I have put all I possess at the disposal of the people's struggle": Pablo Neruda as Collector, Translator, and Poet by Kelly Austin Chapter 8: Antropofagia, Bricolage, Collage: Oswald de Andrade, Augusto de Campos and the Author as Collector by Fernando Perez Villalon Chapter 9: From the Space of the Wunderkammer to Macondo's Wonder Rooms: The Collection of Marvels in Cien anos de soledad by Jeronimo Arellano Chapter 10:Collecting Revisited (and Left Behind): The Treasure Chambers in Ruy Guerra's Erendira and Portugal S.A. by Ilka Kressner Index About the Contributors

SynopsisCollecting 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., From the cabinets of wonder of the Renaissance to the souvenir collections of today, selecting, accumulating, and organizing objects are practices that are central to our notions of who we are and what we value. Collecting, both private and institutional, has been instrumental in the consolidation of modern notions of the individual and of the nation, and numerous studies have discussed its complex political, social, economic, anthropological, and psychological implications. However, studies of collecting as practiced in colonized cultures are few, since the role of these cultures has usually been understood as that of purveyors of objects for the metropolitan collector. Collecting from the Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American Context seeks to counter the historical understanding of collecting that posits the metropolis as collecting subject and the colonial or postcolonial society as supplier of collectible objects by asking instead how collecting has been practiced and understood in Latin America. Has collecting been viewed or portrayed differently in a Latin American context? Does the act of collecting, when viewed from a Latin American perspective, unsettle the way we have become accustomed to think about it? What differences, if any, arise in the activity of collecting in colonized or previously colonial societies? Spanning the period after the independence wars until the 1980s, this collection of ten essays addresses a broad range of examples of collecting practices in Latin America. Collecting during the nineteenth century is addressed in discussions of the creation of the first national museums of Argentina and Colombia in the post-independence period, as well as in analyses of the private collections of modernistas such as Enrique G mez Carrillo, Rub n Dar o, Jos Asunci n Silva, and Delmira Agustini at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. The practice of collecting in the twentieth century is discussed in analyses of the self-described revolutionary practices of Oswald de Andrade, Augusto de Campos and the films of Ruy Guerra, as well as the polemical collections of Pablo Neruda, and the unsettling collections portrayed in Gabriel Garc a M rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude., From the cabinets of wonderof the Renaissance to the souvenir collections of today, selecting, accumulating, and organizing objects are practices that are central to our notions of who we are and what we value. Collecting, both private and institutional, has been instrumental in the consolidation of modern notions of the individual and of the nation, and numerous studies have discussed its complex political, social, economic, anthropological, and psychological implications. However, studies of collecting as practiced in colonized cultures are few, since the role of these cultures has usually been understood as that of purveyors of objects for the metropolitan collector. Collecting from the Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American Context seeks to counter the historical understanding of collecting that posits the metropolis as collecting subject and the colonial or postcolonial society as supplier of collectible objects by asking instead how collecting has been practiced and understood in Latin America. Has collecting been viewed or portrayed differently in a Latin American context? Does the act of collecting, when viewed from a Latin American perspective, unsettle the way we have become accustomed to think about it? What differences, if any, arise in the activity of collecting in colonized or previously colonial societies? Spanning the period after the independence wars until the 1980s, this collection of ten essays addresses a broad range of examples of collecting practices in Latin America. Collecting during the nineteenth century is addressed in discussions of the creation of the first national museums of Argentina and Colombia in the post-independence period, as well as in analyses of the private collections of modernistas such as Enrique Gómez Carrillo, Rubén Darío, José Asunción Silva, and Delmira Agustini at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. The practice of collecting in the twentieth century is discussed in analyses of the self-described revolutionary practices of Oswald de Andrade, Augusto de Campos and the films of Ruy Guerra, as well as the polemical collections of Pablo Neruda, and the unsettling collections portrayed in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude., From the cabinets of wonder of the Renaissance to the souvenir collections of today, selecting, accumulating, and organizing objects are practices that are central to our notions of who we are and what we value. Collecting, both private and institutional, has been instrumental in the consolidation of modern notions of the individual and of the nation, and numerous studies have discussed its complex political, social, economic, anthropological, and psychological implications. However, studies of collecting as practiced in colonized cultures are few, since the role of these cultures has usually been understood as that of purveyors of objects for the metropolitan collector. Collecting from the Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American Context seeks to counter the historical understanding of collecting that posits the metropolis as collecting subject and the colonial or postcolonial society as supplier of collectible objects by asking instead how collecting has been practiced and understood in Latin America. Has collecting been viewed or portrayed differently in a Latin American context? Does the act of collecting, when viewed from a Latin American perspective, unsettle the way we have become accustomed to think about it? What differences, if any, arise in the activity of collecting in colonized or previously colonial societies? Spanning the period after the independence wars until the 1980s, this collection of ten essays addresses a broad range of examples of collecting practices in Latin America. Collecting during the nineteenth century is addressed in discussions of the creation of the first national museums of Argentina and Colombia in the post-independence period, as well as in analyses of the private collections of modernistas such as Enrique Gomez Carrillo, Ruben Dario, Jose Asuncion Silva, and Delmira Agustini at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. The practice of collecting in the twentieth century is discussed in analyses of the self-described revolutionary practices of Oswald de Andrade, Augusto de Campos and the films of Ruy Guerra, as well as the polemical collections of Pablo Neruda, and the unsettling collections portrayed in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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