Total destruction of the National Museum of Anthropology
Subtitle: destruccion total del Museo Nacional de Antropologia
By: Eduardo Abaroa ; texts, Mariana Botey [and five others] ; editor, Jennifer Burris Staton
Contributors: Richardson, Blair, book designer; Sandoval, Jessica, book designer; Mozden, Sonia, book designer
Publisher: Athénée Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Mexico City]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780986205910
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Museo Nacional de Antropología (Mexico)
Other titles: Destruccion total del Museo Nacional de Antropologia; Total destruction of the National Museum of Anthropology.; Total destruction of the National Museum of Anthropology. Spanish.
Notes: "2012-2016."

This book is the culmination of a project by artist Eduardo Abaroa that began in 2012 as an art exhibition in Kurimanzutto gallery, Mexico City, and gradually increased in scope to include photography, drawing, group discussions, archives, essays, guided tours, and public presentations.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel text in English and Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Eduardo Abaroa and Jennifer Burris Staton; title: Exhibition; title: Museum destruction / James Oles; title: Kit to detonate a monolith / Sandra Rozental; title: Ethnogrphic portraits; title: Mining the ISA and reversing cultural extractivism / Mariana Botey; title: Notes; title: Archaelogical [sic] insertions; title: Demolition / Abraham Cruzvillegas; title: Excavations, scenography, debris / Eduardo Abaroa, Francisco Reyes Palma, Daniel Garza Usabiaga; title: Indigenous communities and resource exploitation.