Museums and communities: the politics of public culture

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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.;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.