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The pursuit of ruins : archaeology, history, and the making of modern Mexico / Christina Bueno.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Di�alogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (xi, 267 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826357335
  • 0826357334
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pursuit of ruins.DDC classification:
  • 972/.01 23
LOC classification:
  • F1219 .B918 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
A day at the ruins -- Ruins and the state -- The museum men -- El inspector -- Guarding -- Inspecting -- Centralizing -- Reconstructing.
Scope and content: "This book, then, is essentially about objects. It examines how the ruins of the ancient Indians--monuments overtaken by nature and used by foreigners and local people for centuries--were transformed into museum pieces and official sites. It looks at the making of patrimony, how the pots and statues of the Toltecs, Aztecs, and many other ancient cultures became Mexican objects. It does not pretend to be an intellectual or institutional history of archaeology, nor a comprehensive history of the science. Instead, it focuses on archaeology's role in nation building during one of Mexico's pivotal regimes, a dictatorship that is often thought to have brought the country its first modern state. It explores the process of constructing an ancient patrimony and past--the Porfirian government's effort to cast a net over the pre-Hispanic remains and draw them into the fold of the state"--Introduction.
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"This book, then, is essentially about objects. It examines how the ruins of the ancient Indians--monuments overtaken by nature and used by foreigners and local people for centuries--were transformed into museum pieces and official sites. It looks at the making of patrimony, how the pots and statues of the Toltecs, Aztecs, and many other ancient cultures became Mexican objects. It does not pretend to be an intellectual or institutional history of archaeology, nor a comprehensive history of the science. Instead, it focuses on archaeology's role in nation building during one of Mexico's pivotal regimes, a dictatorship that is often thought to have brought the country its first modern state. It explores the process of constructing an ancient patrimony and past--the Porfirian government's effort to cast a net over the pre-Hispanic remains and draw them into the fold of the state"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A day at the ruins -- Ruins and the state -- The museum men -- El inspector -- Guarding -- Inspecting -- Centralizing -- Reconstructing.

Print version record.

English.

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