Contents -- Essays on Museums and Material Culture -- Arranging Ethnology: A. H. L. F. Pitt Rivers and the Typological Tradition -- From Shell-Heaps to Stelae: Early Anthropology at the Peabody Museum -- Franz Boas and Exhibits: On the Limitations of the Museum Method of Anthropology -- Philanthropoids and Vanishing Cultures: Rockefeller Funding and the End of the Museum Era in Anglo-American Anthropology -- Art and Artifact at the Trocadero: Ars Americana and the Primitivist Revolution -- The Ethnic Art Market in the American Southwest, 1880-1980 -- On Having a Culture: Nationalism and the Preservation of Quebec's Patrimoine -- Writing the History of Archeology: A Survey of Trends -- Objects and Selves-An Afterword -- Information for Contributors -- Index.