Andrew D. Turner is a senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute.

Megan E. O'Neil is assistant professor of art history at Emory University and faculty curator at the Carlos Museum.

"This book traces the history of how and why ancient Mesoamerican objects have been collected. Drawing upon archival resources and museum collections, the contributors analyze the ways shifting patterns of collecting and taste have shaped modern academic disciplines as well as public, private, institutional, and nationalistic attitudes toward Mesoamerican art"--