Collecting Mexico: Museums, Monuments, and the Creation of National Identity

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COLLECTINGMEXICO This page intentionally left blank COLLECTINGMEXICO Museums, Monuments, and the Creation of National Identity SHELLEY E. GARRIGAN University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis · London Portions of chapter 3 were previously published as “Museos, monumentos y ciudadanía en el D.F. de México,” in “Exposiciones, ferias y cultura material en América Latina, 1860–1922,” special issue, Estudios: Revista de investigaciones literarias y culturales 10/11 (2004). Republished in Stephan González, Beatriz Andermann, and Jens Andermann, eds., Galerías del progreso: museos, exposiciones y cultura visual en América Latina (Buenos Aires: Beatriz Viterbo, 2006). Portions of chapter 4 were previously published as “Collections, Nation, and Melancholy at the World’s Fair: Re-reading Mexico in Paris 1889,” in “Perspectivas sobre el coleccionismo,” ed. María Mercedes Andrade, dossier edition, La Habana Elegante: revista semestral de literatura y cultura cubana, caribeña, latinoamericana y de estética 46 (Fall–Winter 2009). Copyright 2012 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Garrigan, Shelley E. Collecting Mexico : museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity / Shelley E. Garrigan. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-7092-5 (hc : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8166-7093-2 (pb : alk. paper) 1. Cultural property—Social aspects—Mexico. 2. Exhibitions—Mexico— History—19th century. 3. Museums—Social aspects—Mexico. 4. Mexico— Antiquities—Social aspects. 5. National characteristics, Mexican. 6. Mexico— Cultural policy—History—19th century. I. Title. F1210.G47 2012 972—dc23 2012001199 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ...