Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public CultureIvan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer, Steven Levine 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. |
Contents
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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Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture Ivan Karp,Christine Mullen Kreamer,Steven Levine No preview available - 1992 |
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