Title
The Pursuit of Ruins Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico / Christina Bueno.
ISBN
9780826357335
0826357334
9780826357311
0826357318
9780826357328
0826357326
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2016.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 267 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"This book, then, is essentially about objects. It examines how the ruins of the ancient Indians--monuments overtaken by nature and used by foreigners and local people for centuries--were transformed into museum pieces and official sites. It looks at the making of patrimony, how the pots and statues of the Toltecs, Aztecs, and many other ancient cultures became Mexican objects. It does not pretend to be an intellectual or institutional history of archaeology, nor a comprehensive history of the science. Instead, it focuses on archaeology's role in nation building during one of Mexico's pivotal regimes, a dictatorship that is often thought to have brought the country its first modern state. It explores the process of constructing an ancient patrimony and past--the Porfirian government's effort to cast a net over the pre-Hispanic remains and draw them into the fold of the state"--Introduction.
Added to Catalog
January 14, 2021
Contents
Part One. Ruins and meaning
A day at the ruins
Ruins and the state
Part Two. The archaeologists
The museum men
El inspector
Part Three. Making patrimony
Guarding
Inspecting
Centralizing
Reconstructing
Epilogue.
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