These Ruins You See / Estas ruinas que ves (English and Spanish Edition)

An amazing book containing a collection of found objects andexhumed artifacts, contemporary and historical illustrations along withthought provoking essays, all looking at the changing ways Mexico hastold the story of its past. The various layers of Mexico's archaeology areforever present, giving rise to continual interpretations, reconstructions,demolitions, and annexations. This volume, based on a number ofexhibitions, publications and lectures, brings together the history ofcollections and exhibitions of pre-Columbian objects, as well as themanufacture of replicas, the shadowy world of forgers and therelocation of key objects, among related themes. This eclectic groupingof ideas brings into sharp relief the ideological baggage and the rangeof museographic practices that always and inevitably frame ourperception of these objects and artifacts.