Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Foreword xv
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I. COLLECTING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
7. Chapter 1. Seeing the World in a Room: Looking at Exotica in Early Modern Collections 15
8. Chapter 2. Collecting Global Icons: The Case of the Exotic Parasol 31
9. Chapter 3. Ancient Europe and Native Americans: A Comparative Reflection on the Roots of Antiquarianism 58
10. PART II. COLLECTING AND THE FORMATION OF GLOBAL NETWORKS
11. Chapter 4. Aztec Regalia and the Reformation of Display 83
12. Chapter 5. Dead Natures or Still Lifes? Science, Art, and Collecting in the Spanish Baroque 99
13. Chapter 6. Crying a Muck: Collecting, Domesticity, and Anomie in Seventeenth-Century Banten and England 116
14. Chapter 7. Collecting and Translating Knowledge Across Cultures: Capuchin Missionary Images of Early Modern Central Africa, 1650–1750 134
15. Chapter 8. European Wonders at the Court of Siam 155
16. PART III. COLLECTING PEOPLE
17. Chapter 9. Collecting and Accounting: Representing Slaves as Commodities in Jamaica, 1674–1784 177
18. Chapter 10. ‘‘Collecting Americans’’: The Anglo-American Experience from Cabot to NAGPRA 192
19. PART IV. EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS OF AMERICANA IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES
20. Chapter 11. Spanish Collections of Americana in the Late Eighteenth Century 217
21. Chapter 12. Martínez Compañón and His Illustrated ‘‘Museum’’ 236
22. Chapter 13. Europe Rediscovers Latin America: Collecting Artifacts and Views in the First Decades of the Nineteenth Century 254
23. Chapter 14. Image and Experience in the Land of Nopal and Maguey: Collecting and Portraying Mexico in Two Nineteenth-Century French Albums 269
24. Notes 289
25. List of Contributors 339
26. Index 343
27. Acknowledgments 363