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050 _aAM 79.P5 .M65 2023
100 _aMojares, Resil B.
_eauthor
245 0 _aEnigmatic objects :
_bnotes towards a history of the museum in the Philippines /
_cResil B. Mojares
260 _aQuezon City, Philippines :
_bAteneo De Manila University Press,
_cc2023
300 _avii, 435 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm.
365 _bPHP645
504 _aIncludes index.
505 _aMuseums -- Collectors, Collecting, Collections -- CODA -- Index.
520 _aIn Enigmatic Objects, Resil B. Mojares traces from colonial history the beginnings of museums in the Philippines— from the gabinetes and museos of Spanish colonial–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.
650 _aMUSEUMS -- PHILIPPINES
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_cBK
999 _c21743
_d21743