Museums, power, knowledge : selected essays

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figure
Note on the text
Introduction: Museums, Power, Knowledge

PART 1. CIVIC ENGINES
1. The Exhibitionary Complex
2. The Multiplication of Culture’s Utility
3. Museums, Nations, Empires, Religions

PART 2. MACHINERIES OF MODERNITY;
4. Museums and Progress: Narrative, Ideology, Performance
5. Pasts Beyond Memories: The Evolutionary Museum, Liberal Government and the Politics of Prehistory
6. Pedagogic Objects, Clean Eyes and Popular Instruction: On Sensory Regimes and Museum Didactics
7. Exhibition, Difference and the Logic of Culture;

PART 3. ASSEMBLING AND GOVERNING CULTURES;
8. The ‘Shuffle of Things’ and the Distribution of Agency
9. Collecting, Instructing, Governing: Fields, Publics, Milieus
10. Aesthetics, Culture and the Ordering of Race: Boas and the Boasians
11. Re-collecting Ourselves: Indigenous Time, Culture, Community and the Museum

Notes
References
Index