Museums and their communities / edited by Sheila Watson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Museums and their communities / Sheila Watson -- The museum and the public / Stephen Weil -- "Play it again, Sam" : reflections on a new museology / Marjorie M. Halpin -- Place exploration : museums, identity, community / Peter Davis -- Interpretive communities, strategies, and repertoires / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- Museums and the combating of social inequality : roles, responsibilities, resistance / Richard Sandell -- Museums for "the people"? / Josie Appleton -- A quest for identity / Nelson Graburn -- "A place for all of us"? : museums and communities / Andrea Witcomb -- From treasure house to museum-- and back / Moira Simpson -- Exhibitions of power and powers of exhibition : an introduction to the politics of display / Sharon Macdonald -- Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum / Timothy W. Luke -- The postmodern exhibition : cut on the bias, or is Enola Gay a verb? / Steven C. Dubin -- Sachsenhausen : a flawed museum / Roger Bordage -- Representing diversity and challenging racism : the Migration Museum / Viv Szekeres -- Collection, repatriation, and identity / Cressida Fforde -- Yours, mine, or ours? : conflicts between archaeologists and ethnic groups / Joe Watkins -- Canadian museums and the representation of culture in a multicultural nation / George F. Macdonald and Stepehen Alsford -- Museums as agents for social and political change / Dawn Casey -- Museums, communities, and the politics of heritage in Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke -- Regenerating identity : repatriation and the Indian frame of mind / Richard W. Hill, Sr. -- Identity and community : a look at four Latino museums / Herlinda Zamora -- Minorities and fine-arts museums in the United States / Peter C. Marzio -- The peopling of London Project / Nick Merriman -- Inspiration Africa! : using tangible and intangible heritage to promote social inclusion amongst young people with disabilities / Viv Golding -- Memory experience : the forms and functions of memory / Barbara Misztal -- Exhibiting memoires / Steven Lubar -- Past tense / Peter Beresford -- The exhibition that speaks for itself : oral history and museums / Anna Green -- Contesting "local" commemoration of the Second World War : the case of the Changi Chapel and Museum in Singapore / Hamzah Muzaini and Brenda S.A. Yeoh -- Collective amnesia and the mediation of painful pasts : the representation of France in the Second World War / Kevin Walsh -- Victims remembered / Tiffany Jenkins -- The Holocaust Museum concept / Terence Duffy -- Mapping the memories : politics, place, and identity in the District Six Museum, Cape Town / Charmaine McEachern -- State authority and the public sphere : ideas on the changing role of the museum as a Canadian social instituiton / Susan Ashley -- Museums : constructing a public culture in the global age / Annette van den Bosch -- Money, power, and the history of art : whose money? Whose power? Whose art history? / James Cuno -- Museums and source communities / Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown -- Archaeology and the Vanua development in Fiji / Andrew Crosby -- Kist and tell / Matt Barnard.