Museums and the making of "ourselves': the role of objects in national identity.

Part 1 New museums, defining the "self" and national states: the role of Pacific Museums in forging national identity, Adrienne L. Kaeppler Nigerian museums - envisaging culture as national identity, Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan contested identities - museums and the nation in Australia, Margaret Anderson, Andrew Reeves archaeology and the establishment of museums in Saudi Arabia, Abdullah H. Masry. Part 2 Forging identity in the 19th and 20th century: history and patriotism in the National Museum of Mexico, Luis Gerardo Morales-Moreno the "Caribbeanization" of the West Indies - the museum's role in the development of a national identity, Alissandra Cummings nostalgia for a gilded past? - museums in Minas Gerias, Brazil, J.P. Dickenson the first Greek museums and national identity, Maria Avgouli. Part 3 Transforming objects, collections and "nation": old wine in new bottles and the reverse, Douglas Newton Portugese art treasures, Medieval art treasures and the formation of museum collections, Madalena Braz Teixeira archaeological museums in Israel - reflections on problems of national identity, Magen Broshi repatriation of cultural heritage - the African experience, Ekpo Eyo the case of Wampum - repatriation from museum of the American Indian to the six Nations Confederacy, Brantford, Ontario, Canada, George J.H. Abrams anthropology and the Kiotapi Waksin syndrome - distortions in interpreting subsistence patterns among Mississippian state, coast Salish and Haida complex societies and other simpler societies in North America, Howard D. Winters.