Museums and Communities

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.

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.

Acknowledgements

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Introduction: Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture

1

(18)

Ivan Karp

PART 1: On Civil Society and Social Identity

19

(118)

Ivan Karp

Museums Are Good to Think: Heritage on View in India

34

(22)

Arjun Appadurai

Carol A. Breckenridge

``Hey! That's Mine'': Thoughts on Pluralism and American Museums

56

(9)

Edmund Barry Gaither

The Other Vanguard

65

(11)

Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Festivals and the Creation of Public Culture: Whose Voice(s)?

76

(29)

Robert H. Lavenda

Art Museums and Living Artists: Contentious Communities

105

(32)

Vera L. Zolberg

PART 2: Audience, Ownership, and Authority: Designing Relations between Museums and Communities

137

(230)

Steven D. Lavine

Change and Challenge: Museums in the Information Society

158

(24)

George F. Macdonald

The Communicative Circle: Museums as Communities

182

(39)

Constance Perin

The Colonial Legacy and the Community: The Gallery 33 Project

221

(21)

Jane Peirson Jones

The Soul of a Museum: Commitment to Community at the Brooklyn Children's Museum

242

(20)

Mindy Duitz

Companeros and Partners: The CARA Project

262

(23)

Alicia M. Gonzalez

Edith A. Tonelli

Creating a Dialogic Museum: The Chinatown History Museum Experiment

285

(42)

John Kuo Wei Tchen

The Museum as a Vehicle for Community Empowerment: The Ak-Chin Indian Community Ecomuseum Project

327

(40)

Nancy J. Fuller

PART 3 Defining Communities Through Exhibiting and Collecting

367

(245)

Christine Mullen Kreamer

The Rites of the Tribe: American Jewish Tourism in Poland

382

(46)

Jack Kugelmass

A Distorted Mirror: The Exhibition of the Herbert Ward Collection of Africana

428

(30)

Mary Jo Arnoldi

Ali'i and Maka'ainana: The Representation of Hawaiians in Museums at Home and Abroad

458

(18)

Adrienne L. Kaeppler

Establishing the Roots of Historical Consciousness in Modern Annapolis, Maryland

476

(30)

Parker B. Potter, Jr.

Mark P. Leone

Mythos, Memory, and History: African American Preservation Efforts, 1820-1990

506

(106)

Fath Davis Ruffins

Contributors

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