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Museums and communities : the politics of public culture

documentary heritage
  • Description

    "As major players in society, museums see themselves not only as collectors of art and material culture but as agents for transmitting and defining culture.

    Contributors to this book examine the often controversial interactions between museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they profess to represent and serve, demonstrating how the contested terrain of cultural representation both brings together and separates museums and communities."--back cover.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    AM124 MUS (Library of Congress Call Number)

    5858 (Cat ID)

    C 4734 (DBTextworks system ID)

    53960 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

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

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • 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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