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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gloria Jane BellPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9781478030881ISBN 10: 1478030887 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 18 October 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. A Nomad in the Roman Archives: Writing from the Margins 1 1. Unsettling the Indian Museum in Rome: Ferdinand Pettrich and Edmonia Wildfire Lewis 23 2. “The Most Exhaustive Record of the World’s Progress Ever Displayed”: Pope Pius XI’s Culture of Conquest and Visitors’ Experiences at the Vatican Missionary Exposition 53 3. “A Window on the World” of Colonial Unknowing: Dioramas, Children’s Games, and Missionary Perspectives at the Vatican Missionary Exposition 91 4. Eternal Sovereigns and Ancestral Art: Ancient Archives, Relatives, and Travelers at the Vatican Missionary Exposition 125 Epilogue. Deus ex machina 159 Appendix 167 Letters on Accessing the Vatican Missionary Ethnological Museum 167 Notes 171 Bibliography 207 IndexReviews“Eternal Sovereigns represents a significant, powerful, and needed ethical intervention into art history, visual culture, settler colonialism, and area studies. Gloria Jane Bell’s juxtaposition of original archival research with her illuminating first-person perspective and creative voice makes for a fascinating and important book that constitutes a major contribution to Indigenous studies.” -- Jennifer DeVere Brody, author of * Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play * “Eternal Sovereigns represents a significant, powerful, and needed ethical intervention into art history, visual culture, settler colonialism, and area studies. Gloria Jane Bell’s juxtaposition of original archival research with her illuminating first-person perspective and creative voice makes for a fascinating and important book that constitutes a major contribution to Indigenous studies.” -- Jennifer DeVere Brody, author of * Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play * “Intimate and personal yet also universal and grand, Eternal Sovereigns serves as an essential read for all disciplines engaging with Indigenous materials and the history of collections. In this provocative ‘ancestral art history lesson,’ Gloria Jane Bell tells the fraught story of the Vatican’s Indigenous objects from the Americas displayed first in the 1925 Vatican Missionary Exposition. This well-researched and clearly written study ultimately demonstrates how archives and museums act as colonial powers on a global stage.” -- Lia Markey, author of * Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence * “Eternal Sovereigns represents a significant, powerful, and needed ethical intervention into art history, visual culture, settler colonialism, and area studies. Gloria Jane Bell’s juxtaposition of original archival research with her illuminating first-person perspective and creative voice makes for a fascinating and important book that constitutes a major contribution to Indigenous studies.” -- Jennifer DeVere Brody, author of * Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play * “Intimate and personal and yet also universal and grand, Eternal Sovereigns serves as an essential read for all disciplines engaging with Indigenous materials and the history of collections. In this provocative ‘ancestral art history lesson,’ Gloria Jane Bell tells the fraught story of the Vatican’s Indigenous objects from the Americas displayed first in the 1925 Vatican Missionary Exposition. This well-researched and clearly written study ultimately demonstrates how archives and museums act as colonial powers on a global stage.” -- Lia Markey, author of * Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence * Author InformationGloria Jane Bell is Assistant Professor of Art History at McGill University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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