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Collecting Mesoamerican Art before 1940
The untold chronicles of the looting and collecting of ancient Mesoamerican objects. This book traces the fascinating history of how and why ancient Mesoamerican objects have been collected. It begins with the pre-Hispanic antiquities that first entered European collections in the sixteenth century as gifts or seizures, continues through the rise of systematic collecting in Europe and the Americas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ends in 1940—the start of Europe’s art market collapse at the outbreak of World War II and the coinciding genesis of the large-scale art market for pre-Hispanic antiquities in the United States. Drawing upon archival resources and international...
From Idols to Antiquity
From Idols to Antiquity explores the origins and tumultuous development of the National Museum of Mexico and the complicated histories of Mexican antiquities during the first half of the nineteenth century. Following independence from Spain, the National Museum of Mexico was founded in 1825 by presidential decree. Nationhood meant cultural as well as political independence, and the museum was expected to become a repository of national objects whose stories would provide the nation with an identity and teach its people to become citizens. Miruna Achim reconstructs the early years of the museum as an emerging object shaped by the logic and goals of historical actors who soon found themselves debating the origin of American civilizations, the nature of the American races, and the rightful ownership of antiquities. Achim also brings to life an array of fascinating characters--antiquarians, naturalists, artists, commercial agents, bureaucrats, diplomats, priests, customs officers, local guides, and academics on both sides of the Atlantic--who make visible the rifts and tensions intrinsic to the making of the Mexican nation and its cultural politics in the country's postcolonial era.
Espacios y prácticas de la Geografía y la Historia Natural de México (1821-1940)
Este libro tiene el propósito de abrir la discusión de este enfoque interpretativo a través de un pequeño número de investigaciones que abordan la investigación científica en diversas regiones y ciudades de México, enfatizando las peculiaridades del conocimiento y las prácticas locales, así como los circuitos de movilidad por donde se desplazaron a lo largo del periodo en estudio. En este sentido, se destacan las diversas ubicaciones de las prácticas científicas en espacios físicos concretos reconociendo su carácter local y situado, y se destaca el papel que desempeñan la cultura y la vida política y social, así como el propio entorno natural en la producción de conocimiento, en la configuración de sus características específicas.
The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America
The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America provides a unique, comprehensive, and critical overview of Latin American studies in the nineteenth century, including the major regions and subfields. The essays in this collection offer a complex, yet accessible transdisciplinary overview of the heterogeneous and asynchronous historical, political, and cultural processes that account for the becoming of Latin America in the nineteenth century—from Mexico and the Caribbean Basin to the Southern Cone. The thematic division of the book into six parts allows for a better understanding of the ways in which different themes are interrelated and affords readers the opp...
Cículos letrados y conocimiento
El libro analiza el surgimiento y desenvolvimiento de las asociaciones letradas formadas en la ciudad de San Luis Potosí con el objeto de recopilar información sobre la ciudad y la entidad estatal para formar parte de los proyectos e iniciativas de la Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística. Sin embargo, la aproximación a las diferentes agrupaciones integradas para responder a los encargos de la Sociedad, planteó varias preguntas relevantes para comprender el desarrollo de asociaciones letradas fuera de la ciudad capital.
Lines of Geography in Latin American Narrative
This book looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to unearth the literary and political roots of the discipline of geography in nineteenth-century Latin America. Tracing the simultaneous rise of text-writing, map-making, and institution-building, it offers new insight into how nations consolidated their territories. Beginning with the titanic figures of Strabo and Humboldt, it rereads foundational works like Facundo and Os sertões as examples of a recognizably geographical discourse. The book digs into lesser-studied bulletins, correspondence, and essays to tell the story of how three statesmen became literary stars while spearheading Latin America’s first geographic institutes, which sought to delineate the newly independent states. Through a fresh pairing of literary analysis and institutional history, it reveals that words and maps—literature and geography—marched in lockstep to shape national territories, identities, and narratives.
Las carreras de Geografía en México: pasado y presente
Este libro concentra la oferta educativa de las once carreras de licenciatura en Geografía que hay en México, impartidas en nueve universidades, ubicadas la mayor parte en las zonas centro, sur y sureste del territorio mexicano. En esta obra participan un total de 23 autores y coautores de capítulo, en su mayoría fundadores, directivos, coordinadores o ex coordinadores de carrera con una sólida formación geográfica en universidades del país y del extranjero, así como una amplia trayectoria que muchos de ellos atestiguan al ser miembros del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores del Conacyt. El trabajo se realiza por acuerdo de los participantes fruto de una reunión de trabajo en junio ...
