Enigmatic Objects: Notes Towards a History of the Museum in the Philippines
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In Enigmatic Objects, Resil B. Mojares traces from colonial history the beginnings of museums in the Philippines-from the gabinetes and museos of Spanish colonical-era educational institutions and the private collections of ilustrados, to the first attempts at institutionalizing public libraries and museums in the early period of American rule. Through vignettes that take off from such eccentric and eclectic items as the earliest extant portrait of a Filipino skulls of bandits measured to explain the phrenology of crime the fabled pestle of an indigenous hero, and teapots made of coconuts, the book itself becomes a cabinet of curiosities where the act of collecting and displaying intertwines with narrating a nascent Filipino nation.
About the Author
Author of prize-winning books, Resil Mojares İs professor emeritus at the University of San Carlos in Cebu. In 2018, he was named National Artist for Literature.
Details
Details
Author: Resil Mojares
Publisher: Ateneo University Press
Year: 2023
Condition: New
Cover: Softcover
Language: English
ISBN: 9786214482658
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