From Idols to Antiquity: Forging the National Museum of Mexico 1496203372, 9781496203373

From Idols to Antiquity explores the origins and tumultuous development of the National Museum of Mexico and the complic

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From Idols to Antiquity: Forging the National Museum of Mexico
 1496203372, 9781496203373

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Genealogies
2. Measures of Worth
3. Collecting the Ruins of Palenque
4. Modes of Display
5. José Fernando Ramírez, Keeper of the Archive
6. Whose Museum?
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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