Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice

The Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art: a memoir / Elizabeth P. Benson -- Aesthetics since Amerindian art before Columbus / George Kubler -- Three early collectors in Mesoamerica / Ian Graham -- The creation of the Museo Nacional de Antropologia of Mexico and its scientific, educational, and political purposes / Enrique Florescano -- In search of the New World classical / Curtis M. Hinsley -- Collecting and exhibiting pre-Columbiana in France and England, 1870-1930 / Elizabeth A. Williams -- Reproducing the pre-Columbian past: casts and models in exhibitions of ancient America, 1824-1935 / Diana Fane -- The necessity of pre-Columbian art in the United States: appropriations and transformations of heritage, 1933-1945 / Holly Barnet-Sanchez -- Progressivist stories and the pre-Columbian past: notes on Mexico and the United States / Shelly Errington -- Diego Rivera's collection: pre-Columbian art as a political and artistic legacy / Barbara Braun -- From huaquero to connoisseur: the early market in pre-Columbian art / Michael D. Coe -- Forging new partnerships for the study and preservation of the pre-Columbian past / Phyllis Mauch Messenger -- Collecting the pre-Columbian past: historical trends and the process of reception and use / Elizabeth Hill Boone