Introduction / by Maria Mercedes Andrade
Sacking the botanical expedition: natural and military history in the first museum of Colombia / by Felipe Martinez-Pinzon
An "immense museum" or an "immense tomb?": war and the rhetoric of continuity in the writings of Francisco Moreno / by Javier Uriarte
Of bayaderas, congai˜s, and fumerias: "virtual" collecting in De Marsella a Tokio: sensaciones de Egipto, La India, La China y El Japon by Enrique Gomez Carrillo / by Olga Vilella
"That heteroclite assembly": collecting, modernity, and "the savage mind" in De sobremesa / by Maria Mercedes Andrade
Postcards, autographs, and modernismo: Ruben Dario on popular collecting and textual practices / by Andrew Reynolds
Delmira Agustini, gender, and the poetics of collecting / by Shelley Garrigan
"I have put all I possess at the disposal of the people's struggle": Pablo Neruda as collector, translator, and poet / by Kelly Austin
Antropofagia, bricolage, collage: Oswald De Andrade, Augusto De Campos and the author as collector / by Fernando Perez Villalon
From the space of the wunderkammer to Macondo's Wonder rooms: the collection of marvels in Cien Anos de Soledad / by Jeronimo Arellano
Collecting revisited (and left behind): the treasure chambers in Ruy Guerra's Erendira and Portugal S.A. / by Ilka Kressner.