Andrade, M: Collecting from the Margins

By María Mercedes Andrade - Contributions by Kelly Austin; Shelley Garrigan; Felipe Martínez-Pinzón; Fernando P...

Collecting from the Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American is the first anthology to provide a sustained discussion of the modern practice of collecting from a specifically Latin American perspective.

A Note on TranslationsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by María Mercedes AndradeChapter 1: Sacking the Botanical Expedition: Natural and Military History in the First Museum of Colombia by Felipe Martínez-PinzónChapter 2: An ¿Immense Museum¿ or an ¿Immense Tomb?¿ War and the Rhetoric of Continuity in the Writings of Francisco Moreno by Javier UriarteChapter 3: Of bayaderas, congaïs, and fumerías: ¿Virtual¿ Collecting in De Marsella á Tokio: Sensaciones de Egipto, la India, la China y el Japón, by Enrique Gómez Carrillo by Olga VilellaChapter 4: ¿That heteroclite assembly¿: Collecting, Modernity, and ¿The Savage Mind¿ in De sobremesa by María Mercedes AndradeChapter 5: Postcards, Autographs, and Modernismo: Rubén Darío on Popular Collecting and Textual Practices by Andrew ReynoldsChapter 6: Delmira Agustini, Gender, and the Poetics of Collecting by Shelley GarriganChapter 7: ¿I have put all I possess at the disposal of the people¿s struggle¿: Pablo Neruda as Collector, Translator, and Poet by Kelly AustinChapter 8: Antropofagia, Bricolage, Collage: Oswald de Andrade, Augusto de Campos and the Author as Collector by Fernando Pérez VillalónChapter 9: From the Space of the Wunderkammer to Macondös Wonder Rooms: The Collection of Marvels in Cien años de soledad by Jerónimo ArellanoChapter 10:Collecting Revisited (and Left Behind): The Treasure Chambers in Ruy Guerräs Eréndira and Portugal S.A. by Ilka KressnerIndexAbout the Contributors