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Introduction: The Art of Ancient Mesoamerica, Collections Forged before 1940
From the Market to the Museum: Nineteenth-Century Circulation, Display, and Scholarly Study of Mesoamerican Artifacts in Italy and Beyond
Curious Things from Mexico in Early German Collections, 1525–1835
Ciriaco González Carvajal and Archaeological Collectionism in Late Bourbon New Spain
The Objects of History and the History of Objects
The Chimalli in Chapultepec: A Mexica Shield Repatriated by Austrian Habsburgs
Collections and Recollections of “The Greatest of Nineteenth-Century Don Quixotes”: Maximilian’s Imperial Legacy at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Beyond the Bazaar: The Making of the Archaeological Collection at the Museo Nacional de México
National Guardians and Imperial Contenders: The Development of Mexico’s Archaeological Inspectorate
Lost at the Exposition: The Missing Collection of Guatemala’s First Museo Nacional
The Casts of Quirigua: Edgar Lee Hewett, the School of American Archaeology, and Ancient American Research, 1907–1916
Maya on the Mersey: Thomas W. F. Gann and Collecting in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
American Antiquities for an American Museum: Frederic Edwin Church, Luigi Petich, and the Founding Decades of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1870–1914)
Imperialist Ambitions, Black Gold, and Stone Figures: Collecting Huastec Sculptures before 1940
Branding Western Mexico: How Collectors and Dealers Reshaped the Archaeological Discourse
The Changing Geographies of the Mesoamerican Antiquities Market circa 1940: Pierre Matisse and Earl Stendahl
Afterword: Object Amnesia and the Archive
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Illustration Credits
Index
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