Museums and Difference
by Sherman, Daniel J.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-11-30
Publisher(s): Indiana Univ Pr
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Summary
Museums, modern concepts of culture, and ideas about difference arose together and are inextricably entwined. Relationships of difference -- notably, of gender, ethnicity, nationality, and race -- have 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.
Author Biography
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).
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Representing Difference | |
| Art Museums and Commonality: A History of High Ideals | p. 25 |
| "The Last Wild Indian in North America": Changing Museum Representations of Ishi | p. 60 |
| National Museums and Other Cultures in Modern Japan | p. 97 |
| Cultural Difference and Cultural Diversity: The Case of the Musee du Quai Branly | p. 124 |
| Gunther von Hagens's Body Worlds: Exhibitionary Practice, German History, and Difference | p. 155 |
| Representing Differently | |
| Meta Warrick's 1907 "Negro Tableaux" and (Re)Presenting African American Historical Memory | p. 205 |
| Skulls on Display: The Science of Race in Paris's Musee de l'Homme, 1928-1950 | p. 250 |
| Dossier: "Inventing Race" in Los Angeles | p. 289 |
| Living and Dying: Ethnography, Class, and Aesthetics in the British Museum | p. 330 |
| Museums and Historical Amnesia | p. 354 |
| Contributors | p. 375 |
| Index | p. 379 |
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