ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Daniel J. ShermanPart 1. Representing Difference1. Art Museums and Commonality: A History of High Ideals Andrew McClellan2. "The Last Wild Indian in North America": Changing Museum Representations of Ishi Ira Jacknis3. National Museums and Other Cultures in Modern Japan Angus Lockyer4. Cultural Difference and Cultural Diversity: The Case of the Musée du Quai Branly Nélia Dias5. Gunther von Hagens's Body Worlds: Exhibitionary Practice, German History, and Difference Peter M. McIsaacPart 2. Representing Differently6. Meta Warrick's 1907 "Negro Tableaux" and (Re)Presenting African American Historical Memory W. Fitzhugh Brundage7. Skulls on Display: The Science of Race in Paris's Musée de l'Homme, 1928–1950 Alice L. Conklin8. Dossier: "Inventing Race" in Los Angeles Ilona Katzew and Daniel J. Sherman9. Living and Dying: Ethnography, Class, and Aesthetics in the British Museum Lissant Bolton10. Museums and Historical Amnesia William H. TruettnerContributorsIndex

[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