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• ISBN: 063122825X (hardcover : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780631228257 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0631228306 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780631228301 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: xxxiii, 640 pages ; 26 cm.
• Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-599) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Museum/studies and the "eccentric space" of an anthology / Bettina Messias Carbonell -- From The museum age : foreword / Germain Bazin -- The museum : its classical etymology and renaissance genealogy / Paula Findlen -- The universal survey museum / Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach -- Brain of the earth's body : museums and the framing of modernity / Donald Preziosi -- The museum refuses to stand still / Kenneth Hudson -- The mirror and the tomb : Africa, museums, and memory / Françoise Lionnet -- Seeing through solidity : a feminist perspective on museums / Gaby Porter -- Museums of "human suffering" and the struggle for human rights / Terence M. Duffy -- At the Holocaust Museum / Alice Friman -- To the citizens of the United States of America / Charles Willson Peale -- Letter of 1863 to Mr. Thomas G. Cary / Louis Agassiz -- The development of ethnological museums / Robert Goldwater -- Museums of ethnology and their classification / Franz Boas -- The constitution of nature : taxonomy as politics in Jefferson, Peale, and Bartram / Christopher Looby -- "Magnificent intentions" : Washington, D.C., and American anthropology in 1846 / Curtis M. Hinsley, Jr. -- Ethnology : a science on display / Fabrice Grognet -- Ambiguous messages and ironic twists : Into the heart of Africa and The other museum / Enid Schildkrout -- Thinking and doing otherwise : anthropological theory in exhibitionary practice / Mary Bouquet -- Museum matters / Gyan Prakash -- What white publishers won't print / Zora Neale Hurston -- From On the museum of art : an address / J.C. Robinson -- Museums and the formation of national and cultural identities / Annie E. Coombes -- Fracturing the imperial mind / Eleanor Heartney.

Presidential address to the Museums Association, Maidstone meeting, 1909 / Henry Balfour -- Picturing feminism, selling liberalism : the case of the disappearing Holbein / Jordanna Bailkin -- The architectural museum from world's fair to restoration village / Edward N. Kaufman -- Addresses on the occasion of the opening of the American Wing, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Robert W. de Forest, Grosvenor Atterbury, Elihu Root -- Telling the story of America / Elizabeth Broun -- Some thoughts about national museums at the end of the century / Roger G. Kennedy -- The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford / James Fenton -- Local museums / Sir William Henry Flower -- Memory, distortion, and history in the museum / Susan A. Crane -- Collecting ideas and artifacts : common problems of history museums and history texts / Thomas J. Schlereth -- Melodrama, pantomime or portrayal? Representing ourselves and the British past through exhibitions in history museums / Gaynor Kavanagh -- Reality as illusion, the historic houses that become museums / Monica Risnicoff de Gorgas -- Artifacts as expressions of society and culture : subversive genealogy and the value of history / Mark P. Leone and Barbara J. Little -- A sense of another world : history museums and cultural change / James Deetz -- Mining the museum : artists look at museums, museums look at themselves / Lisa G. Corrin -- Other icons : the museums / Le Corbusier -- The museum as an art patron / John Cotton Dana -- Aims and principles of the construction and management of museums of fine art / Benjamin Ives Gilman -- Museum / Georges Bataille -- Conclusion to The love of art / Pierre Bourdieu and Alain Darbel; with Dominique Schnapper.

Art and the future's past / Philip Fisher -- Museums without collections : museum philosophy in West Africa / Malcolm McLeod -- Cultural entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Boston, part II : the classification and framing of American art / Paul DiMaggio -- Women at the Whitney, 1910-30 : feminism/sociology/aesthetics / Janet Wolff -- Zero gravity / Maurice Berger -- From The museum as muse : artists reflect: introduction / Kynaston McShine -- Exhibiting mestizaje : the poetics and experience of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum / Karen Mary Davalos -- Resonance and wonder / Stephen Greenblatt -- Changing values in the art museum : Rrethinking communication and learning / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- Secrets of encounter / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.

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Museums > Educational aspects.
Museums > Philosophy.
Museums > Social aspects.
Museums > Historiography.