Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Museums and communities : the politics of public culture
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Smithsonian Institution Press
Place
Date
1992
Physical Description
x, 614 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
156098189X
Language
English
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
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 Go∞mez-Pen▐a ; 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 ; Compan▐eros and partners : the CARA Project / Alicia M. Gonza∞lez 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.
Public Access Text
Includes bibliographical references.
Collection Type
Reading Room
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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