Framing a Lost City : Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu /

When Hiram Bingham, a historian from Yale University, first saw Machu Picchu in 1911, it was a ruin obscured by overgrowth whose terraces were farmed a by few families. A century later, Machu Picchu is a UNESCO world heritage site visited by more than a million tourists annually. This remarkable tra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cox Hall, Amy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]
Temas:
Anthropological ethics.
Machu Picchu Site (Peru).
Peru-Antiquities.
Peruvian Expeditions-(1912-1915).
Photography > Moral and ethical aspects > Peru > Machu Picchu Site.
Photography-Moral and ethical aspects-Peru-Machu Picchu Site.
Yale Peruvian Expedition-(1911).
Yale Peruvian Expedition-(1912).
HISTORY / Latin America / South America.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on the Text
  • Introduction: Seeing Science
  • Sight
  • 1. Epistolary Science
  • 2. Huaquero Vision
  • Circulation
  • 3. Latin America as Laboratory
  • 4. Discovery Aesthetics
  • 5. Picturing the Miserable Indian for Science
  • Contests
  • 6. The Politics of Seeing
  • Conclusion: Artifact
  • Notes
  • Reference List
  • Index

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