Guest Editor's Introduction

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Abstract
Museums are fascinating places, not just for their accepted pedagogic value but also for the way they so often stand as monuments to prevailing taxonomic, ontologic, and epistemic discourses. The museum, an invention of the grand imperial project of collection and display, of bridging historical time and geographical distance by centralizing a knowing gaze in one location, has consistently played its part in the civilizing process by informing the plebeian public about the order of things.

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