Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1992]
©1992

Description:

X, 614 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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

Summary:

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

ISBN:

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

Subject:

Heimatmuseum der Gemeinde Gründau
Museums Planning Congresses.
Museums Public relations Congresses.
Museum techniques Congresses.
Musées Planification Congrès.
Musées Relations publiques Congrès.
Muséologie Congrès.
Museum techniques
Museums Planning
Museums Public relations
Gemeinde
Kommunale Kulturpolitik
Kultur
Aufsatzsammlung
Kongress
Museum
Musea.
Public relations.
Cultuurbeleid.
Museums

Form/genre:

Government publications United States.
Congress
Kongreß Washington (DC) 1990.
Aufsatzsammlung.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Konferenzschrift 1990 Washington DC.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

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

Holdings:

Location: Library main 73303
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:92-B1615
Status: Available

Location: Library main 73302
Call No.: ID PLB; ID:92-B1615
Status: Available