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9781560981893

Museums and Communities The Politics of Public Culture

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    9781560981893

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    156098189X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-05-17
  • Publisher: Smithsonian Books

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Summary

Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Essays include the role of museums in civil society, the history of African-American collections, and experiments with museum-community dialogue about the design of a multicultural society.

Author Biography

Ivan Karp is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Liberal Arts at Emory University and director of the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship.

Christine Mullen Kreamer is an art historian working in Vietnam and an exhibit developer for the “African Voices” project at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Steven D. Lavine is the president of the California Institute of the Arts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture 1(18)
Ivan Karp
PART 1: On Civil Society and Social Identity 19(118)
Ivan Karp
Museums Are Good to Think: Heritage on View in India
34(22)
Arjun Appadurai
Carol A. Breckenridge
``Hey! That's Mine'': Thoughts on Pluralism and American Museums
56(9)
Edmund Barry Gaither
The Other Vanguard
65(11)
Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Festivals and the Creation of Public Culture: Whose Voice(s)?
76(29)
Robert H. Lavenda
Art Museums and Living Artists: Contentious Communities
105(32)
Vera L. Zolberg
PART 2: Audience, Ownership, and Authority: Designing Relations between Museums and Communities 137(230)
Steven D. Lavine
Change and Challenge: Museums in the Information Society
158(24)
George F. Macdonald
The Communicative Circle: Museums as Communities
182(39)
Constance Perin
The Colonial Legacy and the Community: The Gallery 33 Project
221(21)
Jane Peirson Jones
The Soul of a Museum: Commitment to Community at the Brooklyn Children's Museum
242(20)
Mindy Duitz
Companeros and Partners: The CARA Project
262(23)
Alicia M. Gonzalez
Edith A. Tonelli
Creating a Dialogic Museum: The Chinatown History Museum Experiment
285(42)
John Kuo Wei Tchen
The Museum as a Vehicle for Community Empowerment: The Ak-Chin Indian Community Ecomuseum Project
327(40)
Nancy J. Fuller
PART 3 Defining Communities Through Exhibiting and Collecting 367(245)
Christine Mullen Kreamer
The Rites of the Tribe: American Jewish Tourism in Poland
382(46)
Jack Kugelmass
A Distorted Mirror: The Exhibition of the Herbert Ward Collection of Africana
428(30)
Mary Jo Arnoldi
Ali'i and Maka'ainana: The Representation of Hawaiians in Museums at Home and Abroad
458(18)
Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Establishing the Roots of Historical Consciousness in Modern Annapolis, Maryland
476(30)
Parker B. Potter, Jr.
Mark P. Leone
Mythos, Memory, and History: African American Preservation Efforts, 1820-1990
506(106)
Fath Davis Ruffins
Contributors 612

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