Collecting Across Cultures

Daniela Bleichmar is Associate Professor of Art History and History at the University of Southern California. Peter C. Mancall is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.

"The essays in Collecting Across Cultures offer a fascinating new perspective on Europe's encounters with an ethnically and culturally diverse early modern world. . . . Collections and the objects within them are thus themselves imaginatively reconceptualized as sites of encounter and exchange."-British Journal for the History of Science

• List of IllustrationsForeword-Malcolm BakerIntroduction-Daniela Bleichmar and Peter C. MancallI. COLLECTING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLDChapter 1. Seeing the World in a Room: Looking at Exotica in Early Modern Collections-Daniela BleichmarChapter 2. Collecting Global Icons: The Case of the Exotic Parasol-Benjamin SchmidtChapter 3. Ancient Europe and Native Americans: A Comparative Reflection on the Roots of Antiquarianism-Alain SchnappII. COLLECTING AND THE FORMATION OF GLOBAL NETWORKSChapter 4. Aztec Regalia and the Reformation of Display-Carina L. JohnsonChapter 5. Dead Natures or Still Lifes? Science, Art, and Collecting in the Spanish Baroque-JosÉ RamÓn Marcaida and Juan PimentelChapter 6. Crying a Muck: Collecting, Domesticity, and Anomie in Seventeenth-Century Banten and England-Robert BatchelorChapter 7. Collecting and Translating Knowledge Across Cultures: Capuchin Missionary Images of Early Modern Central Africa, 1650-1750-CÉcile FromontChapter 8. European Wonders at the Court of Siam-Sarah BensonIII. COLLECTING PEOPLEChapter 9. Collecting and Accounting: Representing Slaves as Commodities in Jamaica, 1674-1784-Trevor BurnardChapter 10. ''Collecting Americans'': The Anglo-American Experience from Cabot to NAGPRA-Peter C. MancallIV. EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS OF AMERICANA IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIESChapter 11. Spanish Collections of Americana in the Late Eighteenth Century-Paz Cabello CarroChapter 12. MartÍnez CompaÑÓn and His Illustrated ''Museum''-Lisa Trever and Joanne PillsburyChapter 13. Europe Rediscovers Latin America: Collecting Artifacts and Views in the First Decades of the Nineteenth Century-Pascal RivialeChapter 14. Image and Experience in the Land of Nopal and Maguey: Collecting and Portraying Mexico in Two Nineteenth-Century French Albums-Megan E. O'NeilNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments