UID:
almafu_9960010613102883
Format:
1 online resource (326 p.)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
0-19-180483-5
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0-19-151148-X
Series Statement:
Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology
Content:
Relics of the Past tells the story of antiquities collecting, antiquarianism, and archaeology in Peru and Chile in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century. While the role of foreign travellers and scholars dedicated to the study of South America's pre-Columbian past is well documented, historians have largely overlooked the knowledge gathered and the collections formed among collectors of antiquities, antiquaries, and archaeologists born or livingin South America during this period. The landed gentry, the clergy, and an urban bourgeoisie of doctors, engineers, and mil
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Relics of the Past: The Collecting and Study of Pre-Columbian Antiquities in Peru and Chile, 1837-1911; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Antiquities in Peru and Chile; Collecting and Studying Antiquities; The Spaces of Collecting; Writing Histories of Archaeology; Through the Lives of Objects; 1: The Mascapaycha: Collections of Incan Antiquities in Cuzco; Incan Material Culture Under Spanish Rule; Collections, Salons, and Learned Societies; Commodities on Sale; 2: The Khipu: Antiquarianism and Archaeology in Lima; Khipus and Communication in the Andes
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Antiquarianism, Antiquities Collecting, and ArchaeologyA Khipu on the Market; 3: Pascual Coña: Collecting and Colonization in Araucanía; The Free Territories of Araucanía; Collecting Araucanian Antiquities; The Last of Their Kind; 4: The Valdivia Jug: Archaeology over the War of the Pacific; An Incan Civilization For South Americans; Antiquities Collecting, Archaeology, and National Ancestry; Conclusion: Relics of the Past; List of Archives; Chile; Europe; Peru; United States; List of References; Manuscript Sources; Printed Sources; Published Secondary Works; Websites
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Unpublished DissertationsIndex
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-968769-2
Language:
English
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