Museums and communities : the politics of public culture / edited by Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer and Steven D. Lavine ; designed by Linda McKnight ; edited by Susan Warga ; production editing by Rebecca Browning.

Incluye bibliografía.

Acknowledgements, ix -- Introduction: Museums and communities: the politics of public culture / Ivan Karp, 1 -- PART 1: On civil society and social identity / Ivan Karp, 19 -- CHAPTER 1: Museums are good to think: heritage on view in India / Arjun Appadurai and Carola A. Breckenridge,17 -- CHAPTER 2: "Hey! That's mine": thoughts on pluralism and American museums / Edmund Barry Gaither, 56 -- CHAPTER 3: The other vanguard / Guillermo Gómez-Peña, 65 -- CHAPTER 4: Festivals and the creation of public culture: whose voice(s)? / Robert H. Lavenda, 76 -- CHAPTER 5: Art Museums and living artists:contentious communities / Vera L. Zolberg, 105 -- PART 2: Audience, ownership, and authority: designing relations between museums and communities / Stiven D. Lavine, 137 -- CHAPTER 6: Change and challenge: museums in the information society / George F. MacDonald, 158 -- CHAPTER 7: The communicative circle: museums as communities / Constance Perin, 182 -- CHAPTER 8: The Colonial Legacy and the community: the gallery 33 project / Jane Peirson Jones, 221 -- CHAPER 9: The soul of a museum: commitment to community at the booklyn children's museum / Mindy Duitz, 242 -- CHAPTER 10: Compañeros and partners: the CARA Project / Alicia M. González and Edith A. Tonelli, 262 -- CHAPTER 11: Creating a dialogic museum experiment / John Kuo Wei Tchen, 285 -- CHAPTER 12: The museum as a vehicle for community empowerment: the Ecomuseum project / Nancy J. Fuller, 327 -- PART 3: Defining communities through exhibiting and collecting / Christine Mullern Kreamer, 367 -- CHAPTER 13: The rites of the tribe: American Jewish tourism in Poland / Jack Kugelmass, 382 -- CHAPTER 14: A distorted mirror: the exhibition of the Herbert Ward Collection of Africana / Mary Jo Arnoldi, 428 -- CHAPTER 15: Ali'i and maka'ainana: the representation of Hawaiians in museums at home and abroad / Adrienne L. Kaeppler, 458 -- CHAPTER 16: Establishing the roots of historical consciousness in modern Annapolis, Maryland / Parker B. Potter and Mark P. Leone, 476 -- CHAPTER 17: Mythos, memory, and history: African American Preservation Efforts, 1820-1990 / Fath Davis Ruffins,506 --Contributors, 612.

Estos ensayos incluyen el papel de los museos en la sociedad civil, la historia de las colecciones de afro-americanos, y los experimentos con el diálogo museo en la comunidad sobre el diseño de una sociedad multicultural.