El periplo del objeto mitológico: itinerarios simbólicos del arte prehispánico entre los siglos XVI y XX

Abstract

This text discusses the "identity" that pre-Hispanic art objects acquired from the sixteenth to the twentieth century according to the circuits that they traveled and the subjects that collected, regarded and looked at them. Specific itineraries: from the ritual context to the cabinet of curiosities, from the cabinet to the archaeological museum, from the archaeological museum to the art displays. These itineraries express the meanings that the modern West assigned to those objects in relation to their own needs, desires and lacks.