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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2017.
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: seeing science
- Sight
- Epistolary science
- Huaquero vision
- Circulation
- Latin America as laboratory
- Discovery aesthetics
- Picturing the miserable Indian for science
- Contests
- The politics of seeing
- Conclusion: artifact.