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Museums and difference / edited by Daniel J. Sherman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: 21st Century studies ; v. 2Publication details: Bloomington Indiana University Press c2008Description: x, 386 p. il. 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780253349460 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 025334946X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780253219350 (paper : alk. paper)
  • 0253219353 (paper : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Museums & difference [Spine title]
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • AM 7 M813 2008
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.
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Préstamo Biblioteca Pedro Arrupe Acervo AM 7 M813 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 083275

"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.

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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.

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