Museums and communities : the politics of public culture / edited by Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven D. Lavine.

Papers presented at a conference at the Smithsonian Institution International Center, Mar. 21-23, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references.

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'ainana : 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.