Ornamental Nationalism

Archaeology and Antiquities in Mexico, 1876-1911
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35398-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 269/20, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

In Ornamental Nationalism: Archaeology and Antiquities in Mexico, 1876-1911, Seonaid Valiant examines the Porfirian government’s reworking of indigenous, particularly Aztec, images to create national symbols. She focuses in particular on the career of Mexico's first national archaeologist, Inspector General Leopoldo Batres. He was a controversial figure who was accused of selling artifacts and damaging sites through professional incompetence by his enemies, but who also played a crucial role in establishing Mexican control over the nation's archaeological heritage.
Exploring debates between Batres and his rivals such as the anthropologists Zelia Nuttall and Marshall Saville, Valiant reveals how Porfirian politicians reinscribed the political meaning of artifacts while social scientists, both domestic and international, struggled to establish standards for Mexican archaeology that would undermine such endeavors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Valiant, Seonaid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Figures

Introduction
Rise of Professionalism
Archaeology and Nationalism
Artifacts and Authority
Overview of the Book

Part 1
1 Nation Building
Mexico before the Porfiriato
Porfirio Díaz
European Influences on the Porfiriato
Monumentalism in Mexico
Heir to Juárez
Heir to the Aztecs
Creating the Image of the Nation
Symbols of Centralization

2 Designing the Porfiriato
Mexico in Paris
Porfiriopoxtli
Policies
Assimilation
Aztec Patriotism: Sierra and Chavero

3 Rag of Barbarism: Aztecs and Mayas in International Thought (1804–1911)
Shifting Ideas
Baron Alexander von Humboldt
Humboldt’s Influence on other Archaeologists
Translating the Mayas: John Lloyd Stephens
Iroquois of the South: Prescott and Morgan
Sacrifice
Popular Culture

Part 2
4 The Inspector General and Conservator of Archaeological Monuments
Antiquities
Leopoldo Batres (1852–1926)
Nepotism
Batres and the Scholarly Community
Batres’s Background
Race
Hrdlicka
Manuel Gamio

5 Batres in the Field
Policing Archaeological Zones
Saville Seeks Access
Escalerillas: The Street of Staircases
The 1902 International Congress of Americanists in New York City
Thompson in the Yucatán
Batres at Teotihuacán

6 Batres Fought with All the World
La Isla de Sacrificios: Batres and Nuttall
Zelia Nuttall
Isla de Sacrificios
The National Museum

7 The Grand Tour: International Congress of Americanists, Mexico City, 1910
Two Automobiles from Teotihuacán: Corruption
Map from Teotihuacán
Eugène Boban
Batres’s Exit

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Seonaid Valiant, Ph.D. (University of Chicago, History, 2014) is the Curator for Latin American Studies at Arizona State University. Her most recent publication is A Great Rascal: Leopoldo Batres and the Map of Teotihuacán (Mapline, 2017).