Museums, modern concepts of culture, and ideas about difference arose together and to this day remain inextricably entwined. Relationships of difference-gender, ethnicity, nationality, race-have become equally important concerns of scholarship in humanities and contemporary museum practice. Museums and Difference presents 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 consider a wide range of examples from around the world and from the nineteenth century…mehr
Museums, modern concepts of culture, and ideas about difference arose together and to this day remain inextricably entwined. Relationships of difference-gender, ethnicity, nationality, race-have become equally important concerns of scholarship in humanities and contemporary museum practice. Museums and Difference presents 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 consider a wide range of examples from around the world and from the nineteenth century to the present, including case studies of special exhibitions as well as broad surveys of institutions in Europe, the United States, and Japan.
Daniel J. Sherman is Professor of History and Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is author of The Construction of Memory in Interwar France and editor (with Terry Nardin) of Terror, Culture, Politics (IUP, 2006).
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Contents Acknowledgments IntroductionDaniel J. Sherman Part 1. Representing Difference 1. Art Museums and Commonality: A History of High IdealsAndrew McClellan 2. "The Last Wild Indian in North America": Changing Museum Representations of IshiIra Jacknis 3. National Museums and Other Cultures in Modern JapanAngus Lockyer 4. Cultural Difference and Cultural Diversity: The Case of the Musée du Quai BranlyNélia Dias 5. Gunther von Hagens's Body Worlds: Exhibitionary Practice, German History, and DifferencePeter M. McIsaac Part 2. Representing Differently 6. Meta Warrick's 1907 "Negro Tableaux" and (Re)Presenting African American Historical MemoryW. Fitzhugh Brundage 7. Skulls on Display: The Science of Race in Paris's Musée de l'Homme, 1928-1950Alice L. Conklin 8. Dossier: "Inventing Race" in Los AngelesIlona Katzew and Daniel J. Sherman 9. Living and Dying: Ethnography, Class, and Aesthetics in the British MuseumLissant Bolton 10. Museums and Historical AmnesiaWilliam H. Truettner Contributors Index
Contents Acknowledgments IntroductionDaniel J. Sherman Part 1. Representing Difference 1. Art Museums and Commonality: A History of High IdealsAndrew McClellan 2. "The Last Wild Indian in North America": Changing Museum Representations of IshiIra Jacknis 3. National Museums and Other Cultures in Modern JapanAngus Lockyer 4. Cultural Difference and Cultural Diversity: The Case of the Musée du Quai BranlyNélia Dias 5. Gunther von Hagens's Body Worlds: Exhibitionary Practice, German History, and DifferencePeter M. McIsaac Part 2. Representing Differently 6. Meta Warrick's 1907 "Negro Tableaux" and (Re)Presenting African American Historical MemoryW. Fitzhugh Brundage 7. Skulls on Display: The Science of Race in Paris's Musée de l'Homme, 1928-1950Alice L. Conklin 8. Dossier: "Inventing Race" in Los AngelesIlona Katzew and Daniel J. Sherman 9. Living and Dying: Ethnography, Class, and Aesthetics in the British MuseumLissant Bolton 10. Museums and Historical AmnesiaWilliam H. Truettner Contributors Index
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