Miruna Achim
Biographic Data
| ID | 299883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miruna Achim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miruna |
| FAMILY NAME | Achim |
| SIGNATURE | ACHIM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7891-2005 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pas encore classiques: The Making of American Antiquities in the Nineteenth Century
Prehispanic antiquities from the Americas became a recognizable aesthetic, scientific, commercial, and legal category over the long nineteenth century. This article maps out the actors, sites, and material and ideological configurations involved in its creation and development. The first section examines the Iberian antiquarian tradition that brought preconquest artefacts into circulation as epistemic objects from the mid-1700s, against the backd…
Amerasia
“River mud” or “monuments of industry”? Jade Axes and their “savage” American Makers
Outre des spécimens d’histoire naturelle collectés pendant cinq ans, Alexandre von Humboldt a rapporté du Mexique une hache gravée. Les artefacts comme la « hache aztèque » étaient un casse-tête parce qu’aucune source de jade n’avait été repérée dans les Amériques et parce que les « Sauvages » américains manquaient des outils métalliques nécessaires pour travailler les pierres dures. Suivant les traces des haches de jade américaines qui arrivèren…
“River mud” or “monuments of industry”? Jade Axes and their “savage” American Makers
Other pasts are possible: Reflections on the colonial archive
Les musées et les naufrages de l'histoire
Deux mythes façonnent tout ensemble la critique et la défense des musées : leur analogie avec l'arche, cet espace construit pour conserver, et leur possibilité de transmettre des informations d'une période, d'une géographie, d'une langue à l'autre. Cet essai propose une réflexion sur les contingences, humaines et non humaines, qui façonnent la naissance et la fin des collections « savantes ». Il s'appuie sur l'analyse de trois études de cas : le …
The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archives of the Indies, 1781–1844
The Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico
The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784-1838 by Sophie Brockmann
Reviewed by: The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838 by Sophie Brockmann Miruna Achim (bio) The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838 By Sophie Brockmann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 267. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Guatemala's administrators and elites characterized their kingdom …
Pas encore classiques: La fabrique des antiquités américaines au xixe siècle
Pas encore classiques: La fabrique des antiquités américaines au xixe siècleLes antiquités précolombiennes sont devenues une catégorie esthétique, scientifique, commerciale et juridique reconnaissable au cours du xixe siècle. Cet article présente les acteurs, les sites et les configurations matérielles et idéologiques qui jouèrent un rôle dans sa construction et son développement. La première section examine la tradition antiquaire ibérique qui, …
Writing lessons in antiquarianism: Guillermo Dupaix’s manuscripts
Enlightened Immunity: Mexico's Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason
The Real Expedición Filantrópica de la Vacuna was, together with reforms in commerce, administration, and education, one of the most ambitious projects of the Spanish Enlightenment. Setting off from Spain in 1803, the expedition passed through the Canary Islands, Puerto Rico, and Cuba before arriving in New Spain in 1804. A branch of the expedition reached South America. Marking as it did a successful transition in medical theories and disease ma…
Sobre Antonio Calvo Roy, Ciencia y política. Entre dos repúblicas: Odón de Buen
From Idols to Antiquity: Forging the National Museum of Mexico
The National Museum of Mexico: 1825–1867
The history of the National Museum of Mexico during the first half century after its foundation in 1825 has been largely ignored. This is partly because at that time the museum failed to meet contemporary ideals of national museums as repositories of a nation's most representative objects and as forgers of meanings about these objects. This essay argues against reading intrinsic values into the early National Museum of Mexico and proposes paths f…
Skulls and Idols: Anthropometrics, Antiquity Collections, and the Origin of American Man, 1810–1850
From rustics to savants: Indigenous materia medica in eighteenth-century Mexico
El sendero del tiempo y de las causas accidentales: Los espacios de la prehistoria en la Argentina, 1850–1910
Science in Translation: The Commerce of Facts and Artifacts in the Transatlantic Spanish World1
This collection of essays examines the production, exchange, and consumption of scientific objects and facts in the transatlantic Spanish world from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centu
Making Lizards Into Drugs: The Debates on the Medical Uses of Reptiles in Late Eighteenth-Century Mexico1
Mysteries of the Heart: The Gift of Bishop Fernández de Santa Cruz to the Nuns of Santa Mónica
From rustics to savants: Indigenous materia medica in eighteenth-century Mexico
Pas encore classiques: La fabrique des antiquités américaines au xixe siècle
Pas encore classiques: La fabrique des antiquités américaines au xixe siècleLes antiquités précolombiennes sont devenues une catégorie esthétique, scientifique, commerciale et juridique reconnaissable au cours du xixe siècle. Cet article présente les acteurs, les sites et les configurations matérielles et idéologiques qui jouèrent un rôle dans sa construction et son développement. La première section examine la tradition antiquaire ibérique qui, …
The National Museum of Mexico: 1825–1867
The history of the National Museum of Mexico during the first half century after its foundation in 1825 has been largely ignored. This is partly because at that time the museum failed to meet contemporary ideals of national museums as repositories of a nation's most representative objects and as forgers of meanings about these objects. This essay argues against reading intrinsic values into the early National Museum of Mexico and proposes paths f…
El sendero del tiempo y de las causas accidentales: Los espacios de la prehistoria en la Argentina, 1850–1910
Science in Translation: The Commerce of Facts and Artifacts in the Transatlantic Spanish World1
This collection of essays examines the production, exchange, and consumption of scientific objects and facts in the transatlantic Spanish world from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centu
Mysteries of the Heart: The Gift of Bishop Fernández de Santa Cruz to the Nuns of Santa Mónica
Mysteries of the Heart: The Gift of Bishop Fernández de Santa Cruz to the Nuns of Santa Mónica
Science in Translation: The Commerce of Facts and Artifacts in the Transatlantic Spanish World1
This collection of essays examines the production, exchange, and consumption of scientific objects and facts in the transatlantic Spanish world from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centu
Making Lizards Into Drugs: The Debates on the Medical Uses of Reptiles in Late Eighteenth-Century Mexico1
El sendero del tiempo y de las causas accidentales: Los espacios de la prehistoria en la Argentina, 1850–1910
From rustics to savants: Indigenous materia medica in eighteenth-century Mexico
Skulls and Idols: Anthropometrics, Antiquity Collections, and the Origin of American Man, 1810–1850
The National Museum of Mexico: 1825–1867
The history of the National Museum of Mexico during the first half century after its foundation in 1825 has been largely ignored. This is partly because at that time the museum failed to meet contemporary ideals of national museums as repositories of a nation's most representative objects and as forgers of meanings about these objects. This essay argues against reading intrinsic values into the early National Museum of Mexico and proposes paths f…
From Idols to Antiquity: Forging the National Museum of Mexico
Sobre Antonio Calvo Roy, Ciencia y política. Entre dos repúblicas: Odón de Buen
Writing lessons in antiquarianism: Guillermo Dupaix’s manuscripts
Enlightened Immunity: Mexico's Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason
The Real Expedición Filantrópica de la Vacuna was, together with reforms in commerce, administration, and education, one of the most ambitious projects of the Spanish Enlightenment. Setting off from Spain in 1803, the expedition passed through the Canary Islands, Puerto Rico, and Cuba before arriving in New Spain in 1804. A branch of the expedition reached South America. Marking as it did a successful transition in medical theories and disease ma…
Pas encore classiques: La fabrique des antiquités américaines au xixe siècle
Pas encore classiques: La fabrique des antiquités américaines au xixe siècleLes antiquités précolombiennes sont devenues une catégorie esthétique, scientifique, commerciale et juridique reconnaissable au cours du xixe siècle. Cet article présente les acteurs, les sites et les configurations matérielles et idéologiques qui jouèrent un rôle dans sa construction et son développement. La première section examine la tradition antiquaire ibérique qui, …
The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archives of the Indies, 1781–1844
The Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico
The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784-1838 by Sophie Brockmann
Reviewed by: The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838 by Sophie Brockmann Miruna Achim (bio) The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838 By Sophie Brockmann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 267. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Guatemala's administrators and elites characterized their kingdom …
Other pasts are possible: Reflections on the colonial archive
Les musées et les naufrages de l'histoire
Deux mythes façonnent tout ensemble la critique et la défense des musées : leur analogie avec l'arche, cet espace construit pour conserver, et leur possibilité de transmettre des informations d'une période, d'une géographie, d'une langue à l'autre. Cet essai propose une réflexion sur les contingences, humaines et non humaines, qui façonnent la naissance et la fin des collections « savantes ». Il s'appuie sur l'analyse de trois études de cas : le …
Amerasia
“River mud” or “monuments of industry”? Jade Axes and their “savage” American Makers
Outre des spécimens d’histoire naturelle collectés pendant cinq ans, Alexandre von Humboldt a rapporté du Mexique une hache gravée. Les artefacts comme la « hache aztèque » étaient un casse-tête parce qu’aucune source de jade n’avait été repérée dans les Amériques et parce que les « Sauvages » américains manquaient des outils métalliques nécessaires pour travailler les pierres dures. Suivant les traces des haches de jade américaines qui arrivèren…
“River mud” or “monuments of industry”? Jade Axes and their “savage” American Makers
Pas encore classiques: The Making of American Antiquities in the Nineteenth Century
Prehispanic antiquities from the Americas became a recognizable aesthetic, scientific, commercial, and legal category over the long nineteenth century. This article maps out the actors, sites, and material and ideological configurations involved in its creation and development. The first section examines the Iberian antiquarian tradition that brought preconquest artefacts into circulation as epistemic objects from the mid-1700s, against the backd…
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