| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
| Series |
Oxford studies in the history of archaeology |
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Oxford studies in the history of archaeology.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 10, 2015) |
| Subject |
Collectors and collecting -- Chile -- History
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Collectors and collecting -- Peru -- History
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Antiquities
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Collectors and collecting
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| SUBJECT |
Chile -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023868
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Peru -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100187
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| Subject |
Chile
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Peru
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191804830 |
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0191804835 |
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