Exhibiting cultures : the poetics and politics of museum display
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : museums and multiculturalism / Steven D. Lavine and Ivan Karp
- The museum as a way of seeing / Svetlana Alpers
- Exhibiting intention : some preconditions of the visual display of culturally purposeful objects / Michael Baxandall
- Resonance and wonder / Stephen Greenblatt
- The poetics of exhibition in Japanese culture / Masao Yamaguchi
- Another past, another context : exhibiting Indian art abroad / B.N. Goswamy
- Art museums, national identity, and the status of minority cultures : the case of Hispanic art in the United States / Steven D. Lavine
- Art museums and the ritual of citizenship / Carol Duncan
- The poetics and politics of Hispanic art : a new perspective / Jane Livingston and John Beardsley.
- Minorities and fine-arts museums in the United States / Peter C. Marzio
- The Chicano movement/the movement of Chicano art / Tomas Ybarra-Frausto
- Locating authenticity : fragments of a dialogue / Spencer R. Crew and James E. Sims
- Noodling around with exhibition opportunities / Elaine Heumann Gurian
- Always true to the object, in our fashion / Susan Vogel
- The poetic image and Native American art / Patrick T. Houlihan
- Four Northwest coast museums : travel reflections / James Clifford
- Why museums make me sad / James A. Boon
- Festivals / Ivan Karp
- The politics of participation in folklife festivals / Richard Bauman and Patricia Sawin
- Cultural conservation through representation : festival of India folklife exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution / Richard Kurin.
- The world as marketplace : commodification of the exotic at the world's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 / Curtis M. Hinsley
- Festivals and diplomacy / Ted M.G. Tanen
- Other cultures in museum perspective / Ivan Karp
- Objects of ethnography / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
- Refocusing or reorientation?, the exhibit or the populace : Zimbabwe on the threshold / Dawson Munjeri
- How misleading does an ethnographical museum have to be? / Kenneth Hudson.