Museums and Difference

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-12-26
Mått:156 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:21st Century Studies
Antal sidor:400
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253219350

Utforska kategorier

Referensverk och tvärvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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).

Recensioner i media

". . . fascinating and probing treatments of issues that press on both museum workers and folklorists.October 15, 2008"—Lee Haring, Brooklyn College (Emeritus)"Museum and Difference is about the role that museums play in shaping the stories that we tell about who we are and how we are different from other people. It is an interesting subject.Jan. 23, 2009"—Matt Shinn, Museum Practice Magazine"[D]emonstrates both the centrality and rapidly changing significance of difference in museum practice and poses a number of critical questions for future scholarship, such as, for example, whether or not aesthetic distinctions can ever be employed in museums in a manner that does not privilege the identity of one or another social group. —David O'Brien, University of Illinois at Urban"—Champaign

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDaniel J. ShermanPart 1. Representing Difference1. Art Museums and Commonality: A History of High IdealsAndrew McClellan2. "The Last Wild Indian in North America": Changing Museum Representations of IshiIra Jacknis3. National Museums and Other Cultures in Modern JapanAngus Lockyer4. Cultural Difference and Cultural Diversity: The Case of the Musée du Quai BranlyNélia Dias5. Gunther von Hagens's Body Worlds: Exhibitionary Practice, German History, and DifferencePeter M. McIsaacPart 2. Representing Differently6. Meta Warrick's 1907 "Negro Tableaux" and (Re)Presenting African American Historical MemoryW. Fitzhugh Brundage7. Skulls on Display: The Science of Race in Paris's Musée de l'Homme, 1928–1950Alice L. Conklin8. Dossier: "Inventing Race" in Los AngelesIlona Katzew and Daniel J. Sherman9. Living and Dying: Ethnography, Class, and Aesthetics in the British MuseumLissant Bolton10. Museums and Historical AmnesiaWilliam H. TruettnerContributorsIndex