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

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Publication details: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, cop. 1992Description: x, 614 pISBN:

156098189X

Summary: 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. The essays illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums and communities. The topics discussed include the role of museums in civil society, the history of African American collecting and exhibiting, and experiments with more open museum-community dialogue. Such critical issues as ethnicity and class are examined in case studies of communities' attempts to assert their identities in museum settings. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 01261	1	Available		1900171302
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Magatzem	General	M 01510	2	Exclòs de préstec		1900171562

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture / Ivan Karp -- Part 1. On Civil Society and Social Identity / Ivan Karp: 1. Museums Are Good to Think: Heritage on View in India / Arjun Appadurai, Carol A. Breckenridge ; 2. "Hey! That's Mine": Thoughts on Pluralism and American Museums / Edmund Barry Gaither ; 3. The Other Vanguard / Guillermo Gómez-Peña ; 4. Festivals and the Creation of Public Culture: Whose Voice(s)? / Robert H. Lavenda ; 5. Art Museums and Living Artists: Contentious Communities / Vera L. Zolberg -- Part 2. Audience, Ownership, and Authority: Designing Relations between Museums and Communities / Steven O. Lavine: 6. Change and Challenge: Museums in the Information Society / George F. MacDonald ; 7. The Communicative Circle: Museums as Communities / Constance Perin ; 8. The Colonial Legacy and the Community: The Gallery 33 Project / Jane Peirson Jones ; 9. The Soul of a Museum: Commitment to Community at the Brooklyn Children's Museum / Mindy Duitz ; 10. Compañeros and Partners: The CARA Project / Alicia M. González, Edith A. Tonelli ; 11. Creating a Dialogic Museum: The Chinatown History Museum Experiment / John Kuo Wei Tchen ; 12. The Museum as a Vehicle for Community Empowerment: The Ak-Chin Indian Community Ecomuseum Project / Nancy J. Fuller -- Part 3. Defining Communities Through Exhibiting and Collecting / Christine Mullen Kreamer: 13. The Rites of the Tribe: American Jewish Tourism in Poland / Jack Kugelmass ; 14. A Distorted Mirror: The Exhibition of the Herbert Ward Collection of Africana / Mary Jo Arnoldi ; 15. Ali'i and Maka'ainana: The Representation of Hawaiians in Museums at Home and Abroad / Adrienne L. Kaeppler ; 16. Establishing the Roots of Historical Consciousness in Modern Annapolis, Maryland / Parker B. Potter, Jr, Mark ; P. Leone ; 17. Mythos, Memory, and History: African American Preservation Efforts, 1820-1990 / Fath Davis Ruffins -- Contributors

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