From sixteenth-century European Wunderkammern to the veneration of the Virgin of Guadalupe to the Latinization of the United States, this dynamic and innovative book explores how the circulation of objects between Europe and the Americas has profoundly reshaped our understanding of the world
Silva Spitta is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Between Two Waters: Narratives of Transculturation in Latin America.
Misplaced Objects is an erudite, elegantly narrated, historically
wide-ranging, and genuinely transdisciplinary exploration that
should transform contemporary understandings of the Americas in
numerous fields.
*The Comparatist*
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