Research Catalog

Title

Museums and communities : the politics of public culture / edited by Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven D. Lavine.

Publication

Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1992], ©1992.

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Additional Authors

• Karp, Ivan.
• Kreamer, Christine Mullen.
• Lavine, Steven, 1947-
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Description

x, 614 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Museums
• Cultuurbeleid
• Musées > Relations publiques > Congrès
• Museum techniques > Congresses
• Muséologie > Congrès
• Museums > Public relations > Congresses
• Public relations
• Musea
• Museums > Planning > Congresses
• Musées > Planification > Congrès

Note

• Papers presented at a conference at the Smithsonian Institution International Center, March 21-23, 1990.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction : museums and communities : the politics of public culture ; On civil society and social identity / Ivan Karp -- Museums are good to think : heritage on view in India / Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge -- "Hey! that's mine" : thoughts on pluralism and American museums / Edmund Barry Gaither -- The other vanguard / Guillermo Gómez-Peña -- Festivals and the creation of public culture : whose voice(s)? / Robert H. Lavenda -- Art museums and living artists : contentious communities / Vera L. Zolberg -- Audience, ownership, and authority : designing relations between museums and communities / Steven D. Lavine -- Change and challenge : museums in the information society / George F. MacDonald.
• The communicative circle : museums as communities / Constance Perin -- The colonial legacy and the community : the gallery project / Jane Peirson Jones -- The soul of a museum : commitment to community at the Brooklyn Children's Museum / Mindy Duitz -- Compañeros and partners : the CARA project / Alicia M. González and Edith A. Tonelli -- Creating a dialogic museum : the Chinatown history museum experiment / John Kuo Weitchen -- The museum as a vehicle for community empowerment : the Ak-Chin Indian community ecomuseum project / Nancy J. Fuller -- Defining communities through exhibiting and collecting / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- The rites of the tribe : American Jewish tourism in Poland / Jack Kugelmass.
• A distorted mirror : the exhibition of the Herbert Ward collection of Africana / Mary Jo Arnoldi -- Ali'i and Maka'āinana : the representation of Hawaiians in museums at home and abroad / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Establishing the roots of historical consciousness in modern Annapolis, Maryland / Parker B. Potter, Jr., and Mark P. Leone -- Mythos, memory, and history : African American preservation efforts, 1820-1990 / Fath Davis Ruffins.

ISBN

• 1560981644 (alk. paper)
• 9781560981640 (alk. paper)
• 156098189X (pbk.)
• 9781560981893 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 91031648
• 99932128159

OCLC

ocm24376619

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries