Research Catalog

Title

Museums and difference / edited by Daniel J. Sherman.

Publication

• Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2008]
• ©2008

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sherman, Daniel J.
• University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Center for 21st Century Studies.

Description

x, 386 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Series Statement

21st Century studies ; v. 2

Uniform Title

21st Century studies ; v. 2.

Alternative Title

Museums & difference

Subject

• Heimatmuseum der Gemeinde Gründau
• Museums > Social aspects > Congresses
• Museums > Social aspects > Case studies > Congresses
• Museum exhibits > Social aspects > Congresses
• Difference (Psychology) > Social aspects > Congresses
• Cultural pluralism > Congresses
• Cultural pluralism
• Difference (Psychology) > Social aspects
• Museum exhibits > Social aspects
• Museums > Social aspects
• Museumskunde
• Ethnologisches Museum
• Fremdkultur
• Gesellschaft
• Museum

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Note

• "This book grows out of a conference by the same name organized by the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, on November 14-15, 2003"--P. ix.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Daniel J. Sherman -- Part I. 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 Musée du Quai Branly / Nélia Dias -- 5. Gunther von Hagen'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 Musée de l'Homme, 1928-1950 / 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.

ISBN

• 9780253349460
• 025334946X
• 9780253219350
• 0253219353

LCCN

2007020383

OCLC

• ocn137331377
• 137331377
• SCSB-1457575

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library