Framing a Lost City : : Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu / / Amy Cox Hall.
When Hiram Bingham, a historian from Yale University, first saw Machu Picchu in 1911, it was a ruin obscured by overgrowth whose terraces were farmed a by few families. A century later, Machu Picchu is a UNESCO world heritage site visited by more than a million tourists annually. This remarkable tra...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction: Seeing Science
- Sight
- 1. Epistolary Science
- 2. Huaquero Vision
- Circulation
- 3. Latin America as Laboratory
- 4. Discovery Aesthetics
- 5. Picturing the Miserable Indian for Science
- Contests
- 6. The Politics of Seeing
- Conclusion: Artifact
- Notes
- Reference List
- Index