Women, Collecting, and Cultures Beyond Europe

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"This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally. The edited volume builds on recent research and offers a wider lens through which to examine women's collecting histories. Spanning from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first (although not organized chronologically) the research herein extends beyond European geographies and studies to consider how artificiallia and naturallia were collected, transported, exchanged, and/or displayed beyond Europe. Some authors focus mainly on what was collected, while others consider taxonomies, markets and display. This book amplifies women's voices, and positions their collecting practices in relation to distinct cultures, customs, and beliefs as well as exposing the challenges women faced when carving a place for themselves within global networks. This study will be of interest to scholars working in art history, collections and collecting, women's studies, material and visual cultures, Indigenous studies, textile histories, global studies, scientific history, social and cultural histories"-- Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements Collecting to Collectingism: New Directions in Women’s Transcultural Practices PART I: Points of Trans-Cultural Exchange 1 Européenerie in Feminine Space: Qing Imperial Women and Collecting in the Long Eighteenth Century 2 Coerced Contact: The Dzungar Court Costume of a Swedish Crocheting Instructor 3 Trading Places: The Japanese Art Collection of O’Tama Kiyohara Ragusa 4 Created to Gleam: Decorum, Taste, and Luxury of Four Dresses from Viceregal Mexico PART II: Natural History, Colonial Encounters, and Indigenous Histories 5 The Botanist Was a Woman: Classifying and Collecting on the First French Circumnavigation of the Globe 6 Pineapple Lady: Expertise and Exoticism in Agnes Block’s Self-Representation as Flora Batava 7 A Memsahib’s ‘ Natural World’: Lady Mary Impey’s Collection of Indian Natural History Paintings 8 Women and Huipils: The Treasuring of an Indigenous Garment in New Spain 9 Colonial Pantomime: Maria I of Portugal’s Human Cabinet of Curiosities PART III: Settlers, Immigrants, and New Frontiers 10 Settler Botanists, Nature’s Gentlemen, and the Canadian Book of Nature: Catharine Parr Traill’s Canadian Wild Flowers 11 Collecting Indian Art in Santa Fe: The Bryn Mawrters and the Politics of Preservation 12 The Spectacle of Sponsoring an Ottoman Trousseau 13 Las Bexareñas and Their Wills: Women’s Material Culture and Cataloguing Practices in Spanish San Fernando de Béxar PART IV: Recovery, Collaboration, and Repatriation 14 “He Surely Existed”: Women of the Folk Art Collecting Movement and Thomas W. Commeraw, Forgotten African-American Potter 15 Adjacency in the Collection 16 Collecting Fibre Arts in Arnhem Land 17 From Women’s Hands: Learning from Métis Women’s Collections Index