Product Overview
An amazing book containing a collection of found objects and
exhumed artifacts, contemporary and historical illustrations along with
thought provoking essays, all looking at the changing ways Mexico has
told the story of its past. The various layers of Mexico's archaeology are
forever present, giving rise to continual interpretations, reconstructions,
demolitions, and annexations. This volume, based on a number of
exhibitions, publications and lectures, brings together the history of
collections and exhibitions of pre-Columbian objects, as well as the
manufacture of replicas, the shadowy world of forgers and the
relocation of key objects, among related themes. This eclectic grouping
of ideas brings into sharp relief the ideological baggage and the range
of museographic practices that always and inevitably frame our
perception of these objects and artifacts.
