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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. Objects that have been separated over time are brought back together in this book in order to shed light on the interactions and processes that have forged things into symbols of science, aesthetics, and politics. The contributors to this volume illuminate how collections came into being or ceased to exist over time, or how objects moved in and out of collections and museum spaces. They explore what it means to move things physically and spatially, as well as conceptually and symbolically. Museum Matters unravels the concept of the national museum. By unmaking the spaces, frameworks, and structures that form the complicated landscape of national museums, this volume brings a new way to understand the storage, displays, and claims about the Mexican nation’s collections today.
In 1879, in those territories that are currently part of the Argentinian Patagonia and few months after the genocide carried out against the natives, euphemistically called the "Conquest of the Desert", the prolific writer, geographer, politician, and attorney Estanislao Zeballos organized a mission in order to "survey" and "explore" the recently conquered area. He thus gathered-though the correct word would be "sacked"-human skulls, bones that still haunted the battlefields, cult objects, clothing, and metal artifacts. During that journey Zeballos discovered, buried in the middle of a sand dune, a forgotten archive: boxes containing press clippings, XIX century correspondence between the national government and the Indigenous cacicazgos, account entries, governmental stamps pertaining to the cacicazgos, and a Castilian dictionary. This text works out the relationship between this buried "Indian archive" and the remains and objects looted from the defeated population, to be collected and then exhibited. The article attempts to demonstrate that if we read the buried Archive of Salinas Grandes along with that collection of items, gathered in order to be exhibited, like two distinct but nevertheless continuous operations pertaining to the construction of a sovereign discourse, we could better understand the power that the signifying matrix separating culture and history, chaos and state, ritual and politics, archive and trophy, tradition and sovereignty still acquires in the present.
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The 50 th anniversary of the Mexican National Museum of Anthropology seems propitious to look back into its history, not to review its contents and retell it but to attempt a reflection on its fundamentals. In this paper I circle the relationship between anthropology-archaeology, the museum-heritage and the nation-State from a localized space. Without losing sight of the historical problems, I ponder the connection between the scientific disciplines and power, and I reflect on the ways in which the Museum and the disciplines are engaged with the State's reproduction, along with its institutions, its hierarchies and its forms of identity. In the end, after this reflexive effort, I go back to the Museum of Anthropology to ask myself what should be done with it.
Museum History Journal, 2019
This special issue focuses on the practice of collecting archaeological and ethnographic artefacts in Latin America and these artefacts' subsequent journeys to European museums from the mid-nineteenth century until the first decades of the twentieth century. Latin America has an especially important place in the creation of museums and in the development of archaeology and anthropology as sciences in the nineteenth century. A number of factors influenced the intense movement of people, ideas, and objects from Latin and America to Europe. Scientific expeditions, for instance, were fomented by European archaeological and ethnographic museums seeking to expand their collections and with them, the study of indigenous cultures and languages. Likewise, diplomatic relationships between the newly independent Latin American States and the former European colonial powers allowed for the procurement, amassing, and transportation of a wealth of archaeological and ethnographic artefacts to Europe. Last but not least, the creation of private collections and public museums by the Latin American elites also contributed to the creation of a dynamic collecting culture connecting Latin America and Europe. This special issue addresses precisely these dynamics of collecting (in) Latin America. It brings together recent, original papers by authors working in the intersection between museum history, anthropology, and archaeology, with particular emphasis on how nineteenth and twentieth-century collections can be explored anew when archival work and material culture analysis are combined. In their re-reading of old and often underexplored museum collections, the articles exemplify Nicholas Thomas' argument that museums are a technology for creative (re)inventions and re-engagements with the past and present. 1
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La Revolución mexicana incitó un archivo canónico de obras literarias que perfilaron el imaginario nacional: de la filosofía y las artes a la cultura popular. Estas obras resultaron de las experiencias directas del trauma de la guerra y reflexionaron acerca del significado de estos eventos históricos y sus consecuencias para el destino del país. En un periodo caracterizado por una búsqueda de la mexicanidad, más una afirmación de los rasgos nacionales que respaldaran el proyecto político del Estado posrevolucionario, autores y editores — habitantes de la ciudad letrada— desempeñaron una función, como en los tiempos de la Colonia y los movimientos de independencia, para producir los libros que forjaran la nación. Estos intelectuales salvaguardaron su sitio en la manufactura de la literatura mexicana, de la escritura al proceso editorial. Puesto que la producción de libros determinaba la configuración textual y material de las obras literarias, las empresas editoriales —como periódicos, revistas, casas editoras— a menudo fueron políticas también. Con su potestad de primeros lectores, los editores asumieron convicciones estéticas y de forma en torno a los libros y la literatura, mientras servían de intermediarios con el público. La continuamente desestimada transducción de textos en ediciones específicas, por medio de la edición de desarrollo o en línea, la promoción, la censura o la crítica aplicada —formalmente o no—, se convierte en una contribución ineludible a la hora de aproximarse a los escritos. Desde la perspectiva de la historia del libro, la examinación de los procesos editoriales de Los de abajo, de Mariano Azuela, Cartucho, de Nellie Campobello, Pedro Páramo, de Juan Rulfo, y Poesía en movimiento, de Octavio Paz, Alí Chumacero, Homero Aridjis y José Emilio Pacheco, revela la sofisticación en las prácticas de la edición y los criterios de autores y editores al paso del tiempo; la conexión con el proceso creativo; y que, en un contexto de una producción de libros capitalista, el prestigio cultural determinó el acceso al inventario canónico de la nación. A través de ajustes a las narrativas y a las poéticas de la memoria en circunstancias sociopolíticas formativas, la edición incorporó nociones hegemónicas del lenguaje, el canon y la civilización, que son los fundamentos de las batallas culturales del México actual.