Relics of the Past tells the story of antiquities collecting,
antiquarianism, and archaeology in Peru and Chile in the second
half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century. While the
role of foreign travellers and scholars dedicated to the study of
South America's pre-Columbian past is well documented, historians
have largely overlooked the knowledge gathered and the collections
formed among collectors of antiquities, antiquaries, and
archaeologists born or living in South America during this period.
The landed gentry, the clergy, and an urban bourgeoisie of doctors,
engineers, and military officials put antiquities on display in
their private mansions or bestowed them upon the public museums
that were being formed by municipalities and governments in
Santiago de Chile, Cuzco, or Lima. Men, and some few women,
gathered antiquities on their journeys 'inland' and during sociable
weekend excursions, but also on quotidian commercial voyages or in
military campaigns. They bartered antiquities with their fellow
collectors or haggled about their price on the antiquities market.
In their hours of leisure, they marvelled at them, wrote about
them, and disputed over their meaning, age, and interest in learned
societies, informal gatherings, and at meetings in universities and
public museums. This volume unveils a hitherto largely unknown
world of antiquarian and archaeological collecting and learning in
Peru and Chile.
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