Liberating Culture: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Museums, Curation and Heritage Preservation

Using international examples, the author shows that most societies preserve objects of special value and meaning, though they may not be easily recognizable as "museums" to an outsider. Christina Kreps advocates the liberation of culture from the management regimes of Eurocentric museology, and the restoration of people's rights to the control and management of their own cultural heritage. This book will expand the definition of the field and demonstrate that there is not one universal museology, but many.

Christina F. Kreps is Director of Museum Studies and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Denver.