| Description |
xv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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. The Festival on the Mall -- 9. The 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-307) and index |
| Subject |
Smithsonian Institution -- Management.
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Smithsonian Institution -- Public relations.
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Anthropological museums and collections -- Washington (D.C.) -- Management.
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Culture conflict -- United States.
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Museum exhibits -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Museum techniques -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Cultural policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100001
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| LC no. |
97006974 |
| ISBN |
156098757X (paperback: alk. paper) |
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1560987898 (alk. paper) |
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