Museums and difference /

Museums and difference / Museums & difference edited by Daniel J. Sherman. - Bloomington Indiana University Press c2008 - x, 386 p. il. 25 cm. - 21st Century studies ; v. 2 .

"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.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

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.

9780253349460 (cloth : alk. paper) 025334946X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780253219350 (paper : alk. paper) 0253219353 (paper : alk. paper)


Museos ---Aspectos sociales ---Congresos
Museos ---Aspectos sociales ---Estudios de caso
Museos ---Exposiciones ---Aspectos sociales ---Congresos
Psicología diferencial ---Aspectos sociales ---Congresos
Pluralismo cultural ---Congresos
Museums--Social aspects--Congresses.
Museums--Social aspects--Case studies--Congresses.
Museum exhibits--Social aspects--Congresses.
Difference (Psychology)--Social aspects--Congresses.
Cultural pluralism--Congresses.

AM 7 / M813 2008