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  • The Museum of Babel

    Meditations on the Metahistorical Turn in Museography

    af Mark Thurner ...
    Serier serie Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    The Museum of Babel: Meditations on the Metahistorical Turn in Museography is a thought‑provoking, transatlantic reading of contemporary exhibits of the museum’s own past. Museums everywhere now exhibit ‘evocations’ of their own pasts, often in the form of refashioned, ancestral cabinets of curiosities. Moving beyond discussions of ‘the return to curiosity,’ Thurner calls this retrospective trend ... Læs mere

    516,51 kr.

  • After Spanish Rule

    Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas

    Serier serie Latin America Otherwise
    Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and anthropologists to engage postcolonial debates from the perspective of the Americas. These essays extend and revise the insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the ... Læs mere

    272,36 kr.

  • The Invention of Humboldt

    On the Geopolitics of Knowledge

    Serier serie Routledge Studies in Global Latin America
    The Invention of Humboldt is a game-changing volume of essays by leading scholars of the Hispanic world that explodes many myths about Alexander von Humboldt and his world.Rather than ‘follow in Humboldt’s footsteps,’ this book outlines the new critical horizon of post-Humboldtian Humboldt studies: the archaeology of all that lies buried under the Baron’s epistemological footprint. Contrary to the ... Læs mere

    451,93 kr.

  • New World Objects of Knowledge

    A Cabinet of Curiosities

    Redigeret af Mark Thurner, Juan Pimentel ...
    From the late fifteenth century to the present day, countless explorers, conquerors, and other agents of empire have laid siege to the New World, plundering and pilfering its most precious artefacts and treasures. Today, these natural and cultural products—which are key to conceptualizing a history of Latin America—are scattered in museums around the world.With contributions from a renowned set of ... Læs mere

    288,56 kr.

  • From Two Republics to One Divided

    Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru

    Serier serie Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations
    From Two Republics to One Divided examines Peru’s troubled transition from colonial viceroyalty to postcolonial republic from the local perspective of Andean peasant politics. Thurner’s reading of the Andean peasantry’s engagement and disengagement with the postcolonial state challenges long-standing interpretations of Peruvian and modern Latin American history and casts a critical eye toward ... Læs mere

    217,74 kr.

  • The First Wave of Decolonization

    Redigeret af Mark Thurner ...
    Serier serie Routledge Studies in Global Latin America
    The global phenomenon of decolonization was born in the Americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The First Wave of Decolonization is the first volume in any language to describe and analyze the scope and meanings of decolonization during this formative period. It demonstrates that the pioneers of decolonization were not twentieth-century Frenchmen or Algerians but nineteenth ... Læs mere

    516,51 kr.

  • Lydbog

    Tom Corbett Space Cadet

    A Radio Dramatization

    Uforkortet

    1 time

    Juggling schoolwork, cadet training and saving the world, Tom is on the adventure of his life. In his new adventure, Tom, and fellow cadets Roger and Astro, have their first encounter with a dangerous new enemy with a surprising origin. "As roaring rockets blast off to distant planets and far flung stars, we take you to the age of the conquest of space with Tom Corbett...Space Cadet!" ... Læs mere

    80,10 kr.

  • Lydbog

    Tom Corbett Danger in Deep Space

    A Radio Dramatization

    Uforkortet

    1 time 39 min

    Cadets Tom Corbett, Roger Manning, and Astro are back - and this time they're blasting off on a top-secret mission that'll take them to the far reaches of the galaxy! Assigned to a new strict commanding officer, the boys are caught in a race against two rogue rocket jockeys taking them from the luxurious Venus space station to the mysterious planet Tara, which bears untold riches that could save ... Læs mere

    80,10 kr.

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  • Museum Matters

    Making and Unmaking Mexico’s National Collections

    This is a book about objects. Stones, ruins, bones, mummies, mannequins, statues, photographs, fakes, instruments, and natural history specimens all formed part of Mexico’s National Museum complex at different moments across two centuries of collecting and display.Museum Matters traces the emergence, consolidation, and dispersal of this national museum complex by telling the stories of its objects ... Læs mere

    258,99 kr.

  • The Mestizo Mind

    The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization

    Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a personof mixed European and American Indianancestry.Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers a brilliant, original critique of colonization and globalization in The Mestizo Mind. Looking at the fifteenth-century colonization of Latin America, Gruzinski documents the mélange that resulted: colonized mating with colonizers; ... Læs mere

    333,54 kr.

  • Brazilian Art under Dictatorship

    Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles

    Brazilian Art under Dictatorship is a sophisticated analysis of the intersection of politics and the visual arts during the most repressive years of Brazil's military regime, from 1968 until 1975. Raised in Rio de Janeiro during the dictatorship, the curator and art historian Claudia Calirman describes how Brazilian visual artists addressed the political situation and opened up the local art scene ... Læs mere

    252,24 kr.

  • Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas

    Contemporary Perspectives

    In the past fifty years, the study of indigenous and pre-Columbian art has evolved from a groundbreaking area of inquiry in the mid-1960s to an established field of research. This period also spans the career of art historian Esther Pasztory. Few scholars have made such a broad and lasting impact as Pasztory, both in terms of our understanding of specific facets of ancient American art as well as ... Læs mere

    238,24 kr.