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E-book New World Objects of Knowledge : A Cabinet of Curiosities

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Unlike the items in Neil MacGregor’s bestselling A History of the World in 100 Objects, our small cabinet’s curious objects cannot be found in a single museum.1 The reasons for this are several. First, from the late 15th century down to our own day, the New World, and in particular that part of it now called Latin America, has been plundered and pilfered for its ‘treasures’ and ‘wonders’ not by one conqueror, empire, explorer, collector or museum but by many. Consequently, many of its natural and cultural productions are scattered around the world, and in too many cases the provenance of the object has been lost. Second, the global nature of knowledge production has, since the 16th century, meant that everywhere objects have been removed not once but several times to new sites of study, storage and display. As a result, many key objects of modern wonder and knowledge have had several owners and keepers, indeed several ‘afterlives’. Their histories and identities have often been lost, or remade, in the shuffle.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

909 THU n

Penerbit

London : University of London Press., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

299 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-908857-83-5

Klasifikasi

909

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

History of World

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