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Title:

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

Publisher:

Smithsonian Institution Press,

Copyright Date:

c1992

Description:

x, 614 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Museums--Congresses.--Congresses.
Public relations--Congresses.--Congresses.
Museum techniques--Congresses.

Other Authors:

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

Notes:

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

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

OCLC:

(OCoLC)24376619
(OCoLC)30576439

LCCN:

91031648

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

E7OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)