{"product_id":"imagining-a-new-natural-history-latin-american-cultural-production-in-the-anthropocene-paperback-softback-9781683405696","title":"Imagining a New Natural History; Latin American Cultural Production in the Anthropocene (Paperback \/ softback) 9781683405696","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eImagining a New Natural History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLatin American Cultural Production in the Anthropocene\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNicolás Campisi (Edited by), Lucas Mertehikian (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781683405696\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 February 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages, 16 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow writers, artists, and curators are taking creative new approaches to the discipline of natural history\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions, \u003ci\u003eImagining a New Natural History\u003c\/i\u003e presents essays that analyze how books, artworks, and contemporary museum practices reconceive approaches to the discipline that cast humans and nature as separate entities. The creative works examined in this volume feature real and fictional archaeologists, museum curators, botanists, and taxidermists and explore subjects such as the catalog, the cabinet of curiosities, and the exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe contributors to this volume include leading scholars within Latin American studies and the environmental humanities, and the materials they study span diverse media, geographies, historical periods, and linguistic traditions, including Indigenous and Latinx cultural productions. They show how Latin American writers, artists, and critics provide a way of reckoning with the realities of climate change and the Anthropocene, as well as with the conceptual and aesthetic challenges that such realities pose to them. Through the perspectives of these artistic and literary practices, the natural history collections of anthropological museums, herbaria, and laboratories become explorations into the current climate predicament.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors:\u003c\/b\u003e Gabriel Giorgi   Gisela Heffes   Nicolás Campisi   Antonio Gómez   Carlos Fonseca   Florencia Garramuño   Ignacio Veraguas Caripan   Valeria Meiller   Luciana Martins   Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos   Ignacio Pastén López   Florencia Malbrán   Joanna Page   Lucas Mertehikian   Matylda Figlerowicz   Nathaniel Wolfson   Emily Hind\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The New Natural History\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicolás Campisi and Lucas Mertehikian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. The Institutions of Natural History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. The Museum of Modernity: Photographic Archive, Patrimonial Collection, and Selk’nam Genocide\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIgnacio Pastén López and Ignacio Veraguas Caripan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Árbol Ramón, the Axolotl\/Ajolote, and LEGOs: Mexico City’s Papalote Children’s Museum\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmily Hind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities: Play, Improbability, and the Reinvention of the World in Liliana Porter’s \u003ci\u003eEl hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJerónimo Duarte-Riascos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Natural History and Ancestral Knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Reactivating Richard Spruce’s Amazonian Biocultural Archive\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLuciana Martins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Poetics of an Expanded Humanity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlorencia Garramuño\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Telling Natural Histories in Crispín Amador Ramírez’s \u003ci\u003eEl infierno del paraíso\u003c\/i\u003e and Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s \u003ci\u003eWoman of Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatylda Figlerowicz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Part III. Ecocriticism, New Materialism, Posthumanism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. The Necrospace of the Anthropocene: An Anachronistic Archive\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGisela Heffes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. The Ecological Novel: Unearthing a Latin American Land Archive\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarlos Fonseca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Disorder of Time in the Anticolonial Museum\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGabriel Giorgi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. Emilio Renart’s New Sense of Space\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlorencia Malbrán\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Human and Nonhuman Histories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. Exhibitions in the Face of the Climate Crisis: How Is the Anthropocene Shaping Hemispheric Aesthetics?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eValeria Meiller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. The Act of Collecting in Latin American Documentary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAntonio Gómez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. 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