Museums and Difference [Paperback]

Museums, modern concepts of culture, and ideas about difference arose together and are inextricably entwined. Relationships of differencenotably, of gender, ethnicity, nationality, and racehave become equally important concerns of scholarship in humanities and contemporary museum practice. Museums and Difference offers the perspectives of scholars and museum professionals in tandem, using the concept of difference to reexamine how museums construct themselves, their collections, and their publics. Essays explore a wide range of examples from around the world and from the 19th century to the present, including case studies of special exhibitions as well as broad surveys of institutions in Europe, the United States, and Japan.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction Daniel J. Sherman

Part 1. Representing Difference
1. Art Museums and Commonality: A History of High Ideals Andrew McClellan
2. The Last Wild Indian in North America : Changing Museum Representations of Ishi Ira Jacknis
3. National Museums and Other Cultures in Modern Japan Angus Lockyer
4. Cultural Difference and Cultural Diversity: The Case of the Mus?e du Quai Branly N?lia Dias
5. Gunther von Hagens's Body Worlds: Exhibitionary Practice, German History, and Difference Peter M. McIsaac

Part 2. Representing Differently
6. Meta Warrick's 1907 Negro Tableaux and (Re)Presenting African American Historical Memory W. Fitzhugh Brundage
7. Skulls on Display: The Science of Race in Paris's Mus?e de l'Homme, 19281950 Alice L. Conklin
8. Dossier: Inventing Race in Los Angeles Ilona Katzew and Daniel J. Sherman
9. Living and Dying: Ethnography, Class, and Aesthetics in the British Museum Lissant Bolton
10. Museums and Historical Amnesia William H. Truettner

Contributors
Index