Grasping the world: the idea of the museum

General introduction : what are museums for?

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

Poetics of the museum : Lenoir and Du Sommerard / Stephen Bann

Telling objects : a narrative perspective on collecting / Mieke Bal

Collective memory and memoria rerum : an architecture for thinking / Mary Carruthers

Science-honour-metaphor : Italian cabinets of the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries / Giuseppe Olmi

Natural history and the emblematic world view / William B. Ashworth, Jr.

museum : its classical etymology and Renaissance genealogy / Paula Findlen

Inventing Assyria : exoticism and reception in nineteenth-century England and France / Frederick N. Bohrer

Double visions / Homi K. 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

cosmic theme park of the Javanese / Shelly Errington

Introduction to museum without walls / Andre Malraux

Texts/contexts : of other spaces / Michel Foucault

Power/knowledge - constructed space and the subject / Paul Q. Hirst

Museums : managers of consciousness / Hans Haacke

exhibitionary complex / Tony Bennett

Orientalism and the exhibitionary order / Timothy Mitchell

China in Britain : the imperial collections / Craig Clunas

museum of modern art as late capitalist ritual : an iconographical analysis / Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach

Animals as cultural signs : collecting animals in sixteenth-century Medici Florence / Claudia Lazzaro

Remarks on the collection of Rudolf II : the Kunstkammer as a form of Representatio / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

Philip Hainhofer and Gustavus Adolfus's Kunstschrank / Hans-Olof Bostrom

Museums in eighteenth-century Rome / Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny

genesis and early development of the Royal Museum in Stockholm : a claim for authenticity and legitimacy / Magnus Olausson and Solfrid Soderlind

cultural logic of the late capitalist museum / Rosalind Krauss

Collision / Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska

Cultural reflections / Moira Simpson

Histories of the tribal and the modern / James Clifford

Always true to the object, in our fashion / Susan Vogel

From primitivism to ethnic arts / Rasheed Araeen

Museums are good to think : heritage on view in India / Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge

Remaking passports : visual thought in the debate on multiculturalism / Nestor Garcia Canclini

Our (museum) world turned upside down : re-presenting native American arts / Janet Catherine Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles : an account of collaboration between artists, trustees and an architect / Jo-Anne Berelowitz

identity card project and the Tower of Faces at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Andrea Liss

Where is 'Africa'? re-viewing art and artifact in the age of globalization / Ruth B. Philips.