Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Contents

contents k List of Illustrations xi Foreword Malcolm Baker xv Introduction Daniela Bleichmar and Peter C. Mancall 1 I. COLLECTING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD Chapter 1. Seeing the World in a Room: Looking at Exotica in Early Modern Collections Daniela Bleichmar 15 Chapter 2. Collecting Global Icons: The Case of the Exotic Parasol Benjamin Schmidt 31 Chapter 3. Ancient Europe and Native Americans: A Comparative Reflection on the Roots of Antiquarianism Alain Schnapp 58 II. COLLECTING AND THE FORMATION OF GLOBAL NETWORKS Chapter 4. Aztec Regalia and the Reformation of Display Carina L. Johnson 83 viii contents Chapter 5. Dead Natures or Still Lifes? Science, Art, and Collecting in the Spanish Baroque José Ramón Marcaida and Juan Pimentel 99 Chapter 6. Crying a Muck: Collecting, Domesticity, and Anomie in Seventeenth-Century Banten and England Robert Batchelor 116 Chapter 7. Collecting and Translating Knowledge Across Cultures: Capuchin Missionary Images of Early Modern Central Africa, 1650–1750 Cécile Fromont 134 Chapter 8. European Wonders at the Court of Siam Sarah Benson 155 III. COLLECTING PEOPLE Chapter 9. Collecting and Accounting: Representing Slaves as Commodities in Jamaica, 1674–1784 Trevor Burnard 177 Chapter 10. ‘‘Collecting Americans’’: The Anglo-American Experience from Cabot to NAGPRA Peter C. Mancall 192 IV. EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS OF AMERICANA IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES Chapter 11. Spanish Collections of Americana in the Late Eighteenth Century Paz Cabello Carro 217 Chapter 12. Martı́nez Compañón and His Illustrated ‘‘Museum’’ Lisa Trever and Joanne Pillsbury 236 Chapter 13. Europe Rediscovers Latin America: Collecting Artifacts and Views in the First Decades of the Nineteenth Century Pascal Riviale 254 Chapter 14. Image and Experience in the Land of Nopal and Maguey: Collecting and Portraying Mexico in Two Nineteenth-Century French Albums Megan E. O’Neil 269 Notes 289 List of Contributors 339 Index 343 Acknowledgments 363 contents ix This page intentionally left blank ...