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the collecting and study of pre-Columbian antiquities in Peru and Chile, 1837-1911
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
This text tells the story of antiquities collecting, antiquarianism, and archaeology in Peru and Chile in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century.
Cover; Relics of the Past: The Collecting and Study of Pre-Columbian Antiquities in Peru and Chile, 1837-1911; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Antiquities in Peru and Chile; Collecting and Studying Antiquities; The Spaces of Collecting; Writing Histories of Archaeology; Through the Lives of Objects; 1: The Mascapaycha: Collections of Incan Antiquities in Cuzco; Incan Material Culture Under Spanish Rule; Collections, Salons, and Learned Societies; Commodities on Sale; 2: The Khipu: Antiquarianism and Archaeology in Lima; Khipus and Communication in the Andes
Antiquarianism, Antiquities Collecting, and ArchaeologyA Khipu on the Market; 3: Pascual Coña: Collecting and Colonization in Araucanía; The Free Territories of Araucanía; Collecting Araucanian Antiquities; The Last of Their Kind; 4: The Valdivia Jug: Archaeology over the War of the Pacific; An Incan Civilization For South Americans; Antiquities Collecting, Archaeology, and National Ancestry; Conclusion: Relics of the Past; List of Archives; Chile; Europe; Peru; United States; List of References; Manuscript Sources; Printed Sources; Published Secondary Works; Websites
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford studies in the history of archaeology