Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Daniel J. Sherman Part 1. Representing Difference 1. Art Museums and Commonality: A History of High Ideals Andrew McClellan 2. "The Last Wild Indian in North America": Changing Museum Representations of Ishi Ira Jacknis 3. National Museums and Other Cultures in Modern Japan Angus Lockyer 4. Cultural Difference and Cultural Diversity: The Case of the Musée du Quai Branly Nélia Dias 5. Gunther von Hagens's Body Worlds: Exhibitionary Practice, German History, and Difference Peter M.

McIsaac Part 2. Representing Differently 6. Meta Warrick's 1907 "Negro Tableaux" and (Re)Presenting African American Historical Memory W. Fitzhugh Brundage 7. Skulls on Display: The Science of Race in Paris's Musée de l'Homme, 1928-1950 Alice L. Conklin 8. Dossier: "Inventing Race" in Los Angeles Ilona Katzew and Daniel J. Sherman 9.

Living and Dying: Ethnography, Class, and Aesthetics in the British Museum Lissant Bolton 10. Museums and Historical Amnesia William H. Truettner Contributors Index.