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Brannen, Laura M.

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Latin American nationalist narratives in transition: Museums of Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Latin American nationalist narratives in transition: Museums of Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica./
Author:	Brannen, Laura M.
Description:	155 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Rebecca Rollins Stone.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International46-05.
Subject:	Art History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1452201
ISBN:	9780549475286

Latin American nationalist narratives in transition: Museums of Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica.
Brannen, Laura M.

Latin American nationalist narratives in transition: Museums of Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. - 155 p.

Adviser: Rebecca Rollins Stone.

Thesis (M.A.)--Emory University, 2007.

The national museums of Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica offer insight into Latin American initiatives for creating unified nations from diverse populations. Mexico has allocated substantial sums for the construction of numerous national museums to promote an Aztec identity for all Mexicans, even though very few people in Mexico can claim ancestry to the Aztecs and the majority of remaining indigenous people in the country descend from enemies of the Aztecs. Perhaps a faux Aztec facade has been easier to provide for a public image than a solution to the poverty and disenfranchisement of most Mexicans and especially of native groups. In contrast, Guatemala's governments vacillate between progressive and conservative, and advances at its national museums are evident only during progressive administrations. In both, however, the viewpoints of the Maya, half the population, are essentially overlooked. Alternatively, university- and private-run museums in Guatemala involve Maya in exhibition planning, perhaps offering a more viable answer to uniting the divided nation. In contradistinction to both Mexico and Guatemala, Costa Rica's image as a peaceful, democratic, tropical paradise is well known to tourists. Unfortunately, the intended image is obscured through outdated displays at the National Museum. Meanwhile, through newer, more interactive exhibits, the Gold Museum and the Jade Museum in Costa Rica provide fresh perspective on Costa Rica's ancient cultures. However, no Costa Rican institution presents a clear image of reality there, a reality of government controlled primarily by agro-industrial elite, of seemingly unstoppable destruction of the environment and ancient tombs, and of the growing presence of international corporations and First World immigrants. The public narratives of the national museums of these three Latin American countries are stories of questionable veracity, which aim to unite groups who otherwise might protest. These narratives are but thin nationalist veneers under which social tensions remain.

ISBN: 9780549475286Subjects--Topical Terms:

635474
Art History.

Latin American nationalist narratives in transition: Museums of Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica.
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