Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture

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Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer, Steven Levine
Smithsonian Institution, Sep 3, 2013 - Art - 624 pages
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.
 

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Cover
On Civil Society and Social Identity
Hey Thats Mine Thoughtson Pluralism and American Museums
The Other Vanguard
Art Museums and Living Artists
Audience Ownership and Authority
Change andChallenge Museums
The Communicative Circle
Compañeros and Partners
Creating a Dialogic Museum
AkChinIndian Community
Defining Communities Through
The Rites ofthe Tribe American
A Distorted Mirror The Exhibition
Alii and Makaāinana
Establishing the Roots

The Colonial Legacy andthe Community The Gallery33 Project
The Soul of a Museum
Mythos Memory and History
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About the author (2013)

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.

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