- Summary
- Is culture brokered like stocks, real estate, or marriage? In this engaging book, Richard Kurin shows that cultures are always mediated and indeed brokered by countries, organizations, communities, and individuals - all with their own vision of the truth and varying abilities to impose it on others. Arguing that cultural exhibits reflect a series of decisions about representing someone, someplace, and something, Reflections of a Culture Broker discusses the ethical and technical problems faced by not only those who practice in a museum setting but also anyone charged with representing culture in a public forum.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Kurin, Richard, 1950-
- Published
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1997]
©1997
- Locale
- Washington (D.C.)
United States
États-Unis
- Contents
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Foreword / I. Michael Heyman
1. Prologue: Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
2. Introduction: Brokering Culture
3. Brokering the Smithsonian's 150th Anniversary
4. Making a Museum Object
5. Exhibiting the Enola Gay
6. What's With Anthropology?
7. Debating Racially and Culturally Specific Museums
8. Festival on the Mall
9. Festival of India
10. Brokering Post-Cold War Folklore
11. America's Reunion on the Mall: A Presidential Inaugural
12. O Jerusalem!
13. Workers' Culture in the White House
14. What Is It? The American South at the Olympics
15. Conclusion: The New Study and Curation of Culture.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-307) and index.
Foreword / I. Michael Heyman -- 1. Prologue: Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief -- 2. Introduction: Brokering Culture -- 3. Brokering the Smithsonian's 150th Anniversary -- 4. Making a Museum Object -- 5. Exhibiting the Enola Gay -- 6. What's With Anthropology? -- 7. Debating Racially and Culturally Specific Museums -- 8. Festival on the Mall -- 9. Festival of India -- 10. Brokering Post-Cold War Folklore -- 11. America's Reunion on the Mall: A Presidential Inaugural -- 12. O Jerusalem! -- 13. Workers' Culture in the White House -- 14. What Is It? The American South at the Olympics -- 15. Conclusion: The New Study and Curation of Culture.
