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Women, Collecting, and Cultures Beyond Europe
 
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ISBN13:9781032137858
ISBN10:1032137851
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:282 pages
Size:246x174 mm
Weight:820 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 33 Illustrations, black & white; 21 Illustrations, color; 33 Halftones, black & white; 21 Halftones, color
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Women, Collecting, and Cultures Beyond Europe

 
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Short description:

This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally.

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This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally.


The edited volume builds on recent research and offers a wider lens through which to examine and challenge women?s collecting histories. Spanning from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first (although not organized chronologically) the research herein extends beyond European geographies and across time periods; it brings to light new research on how artificiallia and naturallia were collected, transported, exchanged, and/or displayed beyond Europe. Women, Collecting and Cultures Beyond Europe considers collections as points of contact that forged transcultural connections and knowledge exchange. Some authors focus mainly on collectors and what was collected, while others consider taxonomies, travel, patterns of consumption, migration, markets, and the after life of things. In its broad and interdisciplinary approach, this book amplifies women?s voices, and aims to position their collecting practices toward new transcultural directions, including women?s relation to distinct cultures, customs, and beliefs as well as exposing the challenges women faced when carving a place for themselves within global networks.


This study will be of interest to scholars working in collections and collecting, conservation, museum studies, art history, women?s studies, material and visual cultures, Indigenous studies, textile histories, global studies, history of science, social and cultural histories.

Table of Contents:
Collecting to Collectingism: New Directions in Women's Transcultural Practices

Arlene Leis



Part 1: Points of Transcultural Exchange



1. Européenerie in Feminine Space: Qing Imperial Women and Collecting in China?s Long Eighteenth Century


Chih-En Chen


2. Coerced Contact: The Dzungar Court Costume of a Swedish Knitting Instructor


Lisa Hellman


3. Trading Places: The Japanese Art Collection of O?Tama Kiyohara Ragusa


Maria Antonietta Spadaro


4. Created to Gleam: Decorum, Taste and Luxury of Four Dresses from Viceregal Mexico


Martha Sandoval-Villegas and Laura Garcia-Vedrenne


Part 2: Natural History, Colonial Encounters, and Indigenous Histories



5. The Botanist Was a Woman: Classifying and Collecting on the First French Circumnavigation of the Globe


Glynis Ridley


6. Pineapple Lady: Expertise and Exoticism in Agnes Block?s Self-Representation as Flora Batava


Catherine Powell-Warren


7. A Memsahib?s ?Natural World?: Lady Mary Impey?s Collection of Indian Natural History Paintings


Apurba Chatterjee


8. Women and Huipils: The Treasuring of an Indigenous Garment in New Spain


Martha Sandoval-Villegas


9. Colonial Pantomime: Queen Marie I of Portugal?s Human Cabinet of Curiosities


Agnieszka Anna Ficek



Part 3: Settlers, Immigrants and New Frontiers


10. Settler Botanists, Nature?s Gentlemen, and the Canadian Book of Nature: Catharine Parr Traill?s Canadian Wild Flowers


Cynthia Sugars


11. Collecting Indian Art in Santa Fe: The Bryn Mawrters and the Politics of Preservation


Nancy Owen Lewis


12. The Spectacle of Sponsoring an Ottoman Trousseau


Gwendolyn Collaço



13. Las Bexare?as and their Wills: Women?s Material Culture and Cataloguing Practices in Spanish San Fernando de Béxar


Amy M. Porter



Part 4: Recovery, Collaboration, and Repatriation



14. 'He Surely Existed': Women of the Early Folk Art Collecting Movement and Thomas W. Commeraw, Forgotten African-American Potter


Brandt Zipp


15. Adjacency in the Collection


Toby Upson


16. Collecting Fibre Arts in Arnhem Land


Louise Hamby


17. From Women?s Hands: Learning from Métis Women?s Collections


Angela Fey and Maureen Matthews