Contents

• Contents: Alternative Taxonomy
• Introduction: Museum/ Studies and the "Eccentric Space" of an Anthology / Bettina Messias Carbonell
• 1. From The Museum Age: Foreword / Germain Bazin
• 2. The Museum: Its Classical Etymology and Renaissance Genealogy / Paula Findlen
• 3. The Universal Survey Museum / Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach
• 4. Brain of the Earth’s Body: Museums and the Framing of Modernity / Donald Preziosi
• 5. The Museum Refuses to Stand Still / Kenneth Hudson
• 6. The Mirror and the Tomb: Africa, Museums, and Memory / Francoise Lionnet
• 7. Seeing Through Solidity: A Feminist Perspective on Museums / Gaby Porter
• 8. Museums of "Human Suffering" and the Struggle for Human Rights / Terence M. Duffy
• 9. At The Holocaust Museum / Alice Friman
• 10. To the Citizens of the United States of America / Charles Willson Peale
• 11. Letter of 1863 to Mr. Thomas G. Cary / Louis Agassiz
• 12. The Development of Ethnological Museums / Robert Goldwater
• 13. Museums of Ethnology and Their Classification / Franz Boas
• 14. The Constitution of Nature: Taxonomy as Politics in Jefferson, Peale, and Bartram / Christopher Looby
• 15. "Magnificent Intentions": Washington, D.C., and American Anthropology in 1846 / Curtis M. Hinsley Jr.
• 16. Ethnology: A Science on Display / Fabrice Grognet
• 17. Ambiguous Messages and Ironic Twists: Into the Heart of Africa and The Other Museum / Enid Schildkrout
• 18. Thinking and Doing Otherwise: Anthropological Theory in Exhibitionary Practice / Mary Bouquet
• 19. Museum Matters / Gyan Prakash
• 20. What White Publishers Won’t Print / Zora Neale Hurston
• 21. From On the Museum of Art: An Address / J. C. Robinson
• 22. Museums and the Formation of National and Cultural Identities / Annie E. Coombes
• 23. Fracturing the Imperial Mind / Eleanor Heartney
• 24. Presidential Address to the Museums Association, Maidstone Meeting, 1909 / Henry Balfour
• 25. Picturing Feminism, Selling Liberalism: The Case of the Disappearing Holbein / Jordanna Bailkin
• 26. The Architectural Museum from World’s Fair to Restoration Village / Edward N. Kaufman
• 27. Addresses on the Occasion of the Opening of the American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Robert W. de Forest, Grosvenor Atterbury and Elihu Root
• 28. Telling the Story of America / Elizabeth Broun
• 29. Some Thoughts about National Museums at the End of the Century / Roger G. Kennedy
• 30. The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford / James Fenton
• 31. Local Museums / William Henry Flower
• 32. Memory, Distortion, and History in the Museum / Susan A. Crane
• 33. Collecting Ideas and Artifacts: Common Problems of History Museums and History Texts / Thomas J. Schlereth
• 34. Melodrama, Pantomime or Portrayal? Representing Ourselves and the British Past through Exhibitions in History Museums / Gaynor Kavanagh
• 35. Reality as Illusion, the Historic Houses that Become Museums / Monica Risnicoff de Gorgas
• 36. Artifacts as Expressions of Society and Culture: Subversive Genealogy and the Value of History / Mark P. Leone and Barbara J. Little
• 37. A Sense of Another World: History Museums and Cultural Change / James Deetz
• 38. Mining the Museum : Artists Look at Museums, Museums Look at Themselves / Lisa G. Corrin
• 39. Other Icons: The Museums / Le Corbusier
• 40. The Museum as an Art Patron / John Cotton Dana
• 41. Aims and Principles of the Construction and Management of Museums of Fine Art / Benjamin Ives Gilman - - 42. Museum / Georges Bataille
• 43. Conclusion to The Love of Art / Pierre Bourdieu, Alain Darbel and Dominique Schnapper
• 44. Art and the Future’s Past / Philip Fisher
• 45. Museums Without Collections: Museum Philosophy in West Africa / Malcolm McLeod
• 46. Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-century Boston, Part II: The Classification and Framing of American Art / Paul DiMaggio
• 47. Women at the Whitney, 1910-30: Feminism/ Sociology/Aesthetics / Janet Wolff
• 48. Zero Gravity / Maurice Berger
• 49. From The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect: Introduction / Kynaston McShine
• 50. Exhibiting Mestizaje: The Poetics and Experience of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum / Karen Mary Davalos
• 51. Resonance and Wonder / Stephen Greenblatt
• 52. Changing Values in the Art Museum: Rethinking Communication and Learning / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
• 53. Secrets of Encounter / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett