Table of Contents:
  • Essays on museums and material culture
  • Arranging ethnology: A.H.L.F. Pitt Rivers and the typological tradition / William Ryan Chapman
  • From shell-heaps to stelae: early anthropology at the Peabody Museum / Curtis M. Hinsley
  • Franz Boas and exhibits: on the limitations of the museum method of anthropology / Ira Jacknis
  • Philanthropoids and vanishing cultures: Rockefeller funding and the end of the museum era in Anglo-American anthropology / George W. Stocking, Jr.
  • Art and artifact at the Trocadero: Ars Americana and the primitivist revolution / Elizabeth A. Williams
  • The ethnic art market in the American Southwest, 1880-1980 / Edwin L. Wade
  • On having a culture: nationalism and the preservation of Quebec's Patrimoine / Richard Handler
  • Writing the history of archeology: a survey of trends / Bruce G. Trigger
  • Objects and selves: an afterword / James Clifford.