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Beyond forgeries: Peruvian neoantiquities and their transnational trajectories, 19th-20th centuries (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2022)
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This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project examines the dynamics of the Peruvian antiquities market between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the study of collections of so-called forgeries housed in five museums in Germany. To do so, I rename these works neo-antiquities, a term that better fits their position as objects that engaged the emergent market of Peruvian antiques and souvenirs at this time. To...