Imagining a New Natural History by Nicols Campisi, Lucas Mer... - 9781683405559

Imagining a New Natural HistoryLatin American Cultural Production in the Anthropocene\nAuthor(s): Nicols Campisi, Lucas Mertehikian\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Florida, United States\nImprint: University Press of Florida\nISBN-13: 9781683405559, 978-1683405559\nSynopsis\nHow writers, artists, and curators are taking creative new approaches to the discipline of natural history\n\nOffering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions, Imagining a New Natural History 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.\n\nThe contributors to this volume include d