General introduction - What are museums for?. What are museums for? Creating historical effects: Introduction; The fictions of factual representation, Hayden White; Psychoanalysis and its history, Michel De Certeau; Rome, the archetypal museum and the Louvre, the negation of division, Jean-Louis Deotte; The poetics of the museum - Lenoir and Du Sommerard, Stephen Bann; Telling objects - A narrative perspective on collecting, Mieke Bal. What are museums for? Instituting evidence: Introduction; Collective memory and memoria rerum, Mary Carruthers; Science-honour-metaphor - Italian cabinets of the 16th and 17th century, Giuseppe Olmi; Natural history and the emblematic world view, William N. Ashworth Jr; The museum - Its classical etymology and Renaissance genealogy, Paula Findlen; Inventing Assyria - Exoticism and reception in 19th-century England and France, Frederick N. Bohrer. What are museums for? Building shared imaginaries/effacing otherness: Introduction; Double visions, Homi Bhabha; Teddy bear patriarchy - Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936, Donna Haraway; From princely gallery to the public art museum - The Louvre Museum and the National Gallery, London, Carol Duncan; Museums and the formation of national and cultural identities, Annie E. Coombes; Creating identity - Exhibiting the Philippines at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Beverly K. Grindstaff; Performing identity - The museal framing of Nazi ideology, Sandra Esslinger; The cosmic theme park of the Javanese, Shelly Errington; What are museums for? Observing subjects, disciplining practice: Introduction; Introduction - Museum without walls, Andre Malraux; Of other spaces, Michel Foucault; Power/knowledge - constructed space and the subject, Paul Q. Hirst; Museums - Managers of consciousness, Hans Haacke; The exhibitionary complex, Tony Bennett; Orientalism and the exhibitionary order, Timothy Mitchell; China in Britain - The Imperial collections, Craig Clunas. What are museums for? Secularizing rituals: Introduction; The museum of modern art as late capitalist ritual - An iconographical analysis, Carol Duncan, Alan Wallach; Animals as cultural signs - Collecting animals in 16th-century Medici Florence, Claudia Lazzaro; Remarks on the collection of Rudolf II - The Kunstkammer as a form of representation, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann; Philip Hainhofer and Gustavus Adolfus's Kunstschrank in Uppsala, Hans-Olof Bostrom; Museums in 18th-century Rome, Francis Haskell, Nicholas Penny; The genesis and early development of the Royal Museum in Stockholm - A claim for authenticity and legitimacy, Magnus Olausson, Solfrid Soderlind; The cultural logic of the late capitalist museum, Rosalind Krauss; Collision, Neil Cummings, Marysia Lewandowska. What are museums for? Inclusions and exclusions - Representing adequately: Introduction; Cultural reflections, Moira Simpson; Histories of the tribal and the modern, James Clifford. (Part contents).
