Museums and difference /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Center for 21st Century Studies
Other Authors:	Sherman, Daniel J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2008]
Series:	21st Century studies ; v. 2.
Subjects:	Museums > Social aspects > Congresses. Museums > Social aspects > Case studies > Congresses. Museum exhibits > Social aspects > Congresses. Difference (Psychology) > Social aspects > Congresses. Cultural pluralism > Congresses.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Art museums and commonality : a history of high ideals / Andrew McClellan
"The last wild Indian in North America" : changing museum representations of Ishi / Ira Jacknis
National museums and other cultures in modern Japan / Angus Lockyer
Cultural difference and cultural diversity : the case of the Musée du Quai Branly / Nélia Dias
Gunther von Hagen's body worlds : exhibitionary practice, German history, and difference / Peter M. McIsaac
Meta Warrick's 1907 "Negro Tableaux" and (re)presenting African American historical memory / W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Skulls on display : the science of race in Paris's Musée de l'Homme, 1928-1950 / Alice L. Conklin
Dossier : "Inventing race" in Los Angeles / Ilona Katzew and Daniel J. Sherman
Living and dying : ethnography, class, and aesthetics in the British Museum / Lissant Bolton
Museums and historical amnesia / William H. Truettner.