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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).
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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