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UNINA9910461203403321 |
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Autore |
Garrigan Shelley E |
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Titolo |
Collecting Mexico [[electronic resource] ] : museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity / / Shelley E. Garrigan |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 |
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1-4529-4714-7 |
0-8166-8015-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Cultural property - Social aspects - Mexico |
Exhibitions - Mexico - History - 19th century |
Museums - Social aspects - Mexico |
National characteristics, Mexican |
Electronic books. |
Mexico Antiquities Social aspects |
Mexico Cultural policy History 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Fine art and demand : debating the Mexican national canon (1876-1910) -- Our archaeology : science, citizenry, patrimony, and the museum -- The hidden lives of historical monuments : commerce, fashion, and memorial -- Collections at the World's Fair : rereading Mexico in Paris, 1889 -- Collecting numbers : statistics and the constructive force of deficiency. |
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Collecting Mexico centers on the ways in which aesthetics and commercialism intersected in officially sanctioned public collections and displays in late nineteenth-century Mexico. Shelley E. Garrigan approaches questions of origin, citizenry, membership, and difference by reconstructing the lineage of institutionally collected objects around which a modern Mexican identity was negotiated. In doing so, she arrives at a deeper understanding of the ways in which displayed objects become linked with nationalistic meaning and why they exert such persuasive force. Spanning the Porfiriato period from |
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UNINA9910974724003321 |
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Boom & bust : bird stories for a dry country / / Libby Robin, Robert Heinsohn, Leo Joseph (editors) |
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Collingwood, Vic., : CSIRO Pub., c2009 |
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9786613155221 |
9780643098671 |
0643098674 |
9781283155229 |
1283155222 |
9780643097094 |
0643097090 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (311 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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RobinLibby <1956-> |
JosephLeo |
HeinsohnRobert |
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Birds - Behavior - Australia |
Birds - Effect of drought on - Australia |
Nature - Effect of human beings on |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction : boom and bust / Libby Robin and Mike Smith -- The boom and bust desert world : a bird's eye view / Libby Robin and Leo Joseph -- Barcoo bantam : 'It runs like hell!' / Graham Pizzey -- Rain and grass : lessons in how to be a zebra finch / Steve Morton -- Grey teal : survivors in a changing world / David Roshier -- Australian pelican : flexible responses to uncertainty / Julian Reid -- Night parrots : fugitives of the inland / Penny Olsen -- Genyornis : last of the dromornithids / Mike Smith -- Rainbirds : organising the country / Deborah Bird Rose -- Woodswallows : a longer term, evolutionary view of boom and bust / Leo Joseph -- White-winged choughs : the social consequences of boom and bust / Robert Heinsohn -- Emu : national symbols and ecological limits / Libby Robin. |
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Leading writers draw on ideas in both science and the humanities to tell the stories of birds and people in the world's driest inhabited continent. |
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