Imagining a New Natural History

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Latin American Cultural Production in the Anthropocene

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvNicolás Campisi,Lucas Mertehikian,Nicolas Campisi,Lucas Campisi, Nicolás

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How writers, artists, and curators are taking creative new approaches to the discipline of natural historyOffering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions, Imagining a New Natural History presents essays that analyze how books, artworks, and contemporary museum practices reconceive approaches to the discipline that cast humans and nature as separate entities. The creative works examined in this volume feature real and fictional archaeologists, museum curators, botanists, and taxidermists and explore subjects such as the catalog, the cabinet of curiosities, and the exhibition.The contributors to this volume include leading scholars within Latin American studies and the environmental humanities, and the materials they study span diverse media, geographies, historical periods, and linguistic traditions, including Indigenous and Latinx cultural productions. They show how Latin American writers, artists, and critics provide a way of reckoning with the realities of climate change and the Anthropocene, as well as with the conceptual and aesthetic challenges that such realities pose to them. Through the perspectives of these artistic and literary practices, the natural history collections of anthropological museums, herbaria, and laboratories become explorations into the current climate predicament.Contributors: Gabriel Giorgi Gisela Heffes Nicolás Campisi Antonio Gómez Carlos Fonseca Florencia Garramuño Ignacio Veraguas Caripan Valeria Meiller Luciana Martins Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos Ignacio Pastén López Florencia Malbrán Joanna Page Lucas Mertehikian Matylda Figlerowicz Nathaniel Wolfson Emily Hind

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-03
Mått156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt599 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor300
FörlagUniversity Press of Florida
ISBN9781683405559

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List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The New Natural HistoryNicolás Campisi and Lucas MertehikianPart I. The Institutions of Natural History1. The Museum of Modernity: Photographic Archive, Patrimonial Collection, and Selk’nam GenocideIgnacio Pastén López and Ignacio Veraguas Caripan2. Árbol Ramón, the Axolotl/Ajolote, and LEGOs: Mexico City’s Papalote Children’s MuseumEmily Hind3. A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities: Play, Improbability, and the Reinvention of the World in Liliana Porter’s El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones brevesJerónimo Duarte-RiascosPart II. Natural History and Ancestral Knowledge4. Reactivating Richard Spruce’s Amazonian Biocultural ArchiveLuciana Martins5. Poetics of an Expanded HumanityFlorencia Garramuño6. Telling Natural Histories in Crispín Amador Ramírez’s El infierno del paraíso and Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s Woman of LightMatylda FiglerowiczPart III. Ecocriticism, New Materialism, Posthumanism7. The Necrospace of the Anthropocene: An Anachronistic ArchiveGisela Heffes8. The Ecological Novel: Unearthing a Latin American Land ArchiveCarlos Fonseca9. Disorder of Time in the Anticolonial MuseumGabriel Giorgi10. Emilio Renart’s New Sense of SpaceFlorencia MalbránPart IV. Human and Nonhuman Histories11. Exhibitions in the Face of the Climate Crisis: How Is the Anthropocene Shaping Hemispheric Aesthetics?Valeria Meiller12. The Act of Collecting in Latin American DocumentaryAntonio Gómez13. Marias and Joões: Naming in Maria Esther Maciel’s Poetic EncyclopediasNathaniel WolfsonAfterword 267Joanna PageList of Contributors 273Index 277