Exhibiting cultures: the poetics and politics of museum display

Acknowledgements
	


	
Introduction: Museums and Multiculturalism Steven D. Lavine and Ivan Karp
	
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PART 1:
	
Culture and Representation
Ivan Karp
	
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The Museum as a Way of Seeing
Svetlana Alpers
	
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Exhibiting Intention: Some Preconditions of the Visual Display of Culturally Purposeful Objects Michael Baxandall
	
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CHAP.3:
	
Resonance and Wonder
Stephen Greenblatt
	
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The Poetics of Exhibition in Japanese Culture  Masao Yamaguchi
	
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Another Past, Another Context: Exhibiting Indian Art Abroad
B. N. Goswamy
	
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PART 2:
	
Art Museums, National Identity, and the Status of Minority Cultures: The Case of Hispanic Art in the United States
Steven D. Lavine
	
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CHAP.6:
	
Art Museums and the Ritual of Citizenship
Carol Duncan
	
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The Poetics and Politics of Hispanic Art: A New Perspective
Jane Livingston and John Beardsley
	
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Minorities and Fine-Arts Museums in the United States
Peter C. Marzio
	
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The Chicano Movement/The Movement of Chicano Art Tomas Ybarra-Frausto
	
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PART 3:
	
Museum Practices
Steven D. Lavine
	
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Locating Authenticity: Fragments of a Dialogue Spencer R. Crew and James E. Sims
	
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Noodling Around with Exhibition Opportunities Elaine Heumann Gurian
	
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Always True to the Object, in Our Fashion
Susan Vogel
	
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CHAP.13:
	
The Poetic Image and Native American Art
Patrick T. Houlihan
	
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CHAP.14:
	
Four Northwest Coast Museums: Travel Reflections James Clifford
	
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CHAP.15:
	
Why Museums Make Me Sad
James A. Boon
	
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PART 4:
	
Festivals
Ivan Karp
	
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CHAP.16:
	
The Politics of Participation in Folk-life Festivals
Richard Bauman And Patricia Sawin
	
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CHAP.17:
	
Cultural Conservation through Represen tation: Festival of India Folk-life Exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution
Richard Kurin
	
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CHAP.18:
	
The World as Marketplace: Commodification of the Exotic at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Curtis M. Hinsley
	
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CHAP.19:
	
Festivals and Diplomacy
Ted M. G. Tanen
	
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PART 5:
	
Other Cultures in Museum Perspective
Ivan Karp
	
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Objects of Ethnography
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
	
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Refocusing or Reorientation? The Exhibit or the Populace: Zimbabwe on the Threshold
Dawson Munjeri
	
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How Misleading Does an Ethnographical Museum Have to Be?
Kenneth Hudson
	
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