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This document is an edited collection of chapters about the poetics and politics of museum display. It covers topics such as representing culture, exhibiting different cultural objects, art museums and national identity, museum practices, festivals, and representing other cultures from an ethnographic perspective.

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The Poetics

and Politics
of Museum
Display

Edited by

Ivan Karp and

Steven D. Lavine

EXHIBITING CULTURES
Smithson ian

Institu t ion

Pr ess

Washing to n

and Lo ndon
Contents
Acknowled gements ix

Introductio n: Museums and M ulticulturalism 1


S T E V E N D. L A V I N E A N D I V A N K A R P

P A R T f: Cultu r e and Representation 11


IVAN KARP

C H A P T E R I : T h e M useum as a Way of Seeing 25


SV ET LA NA ALPERS

C H A P T E R 2: Exhibiting Intention: Some Precondi­


tions of the Visual Display of Cultur­
ally Purposeful Objects 33
MICHAEL B A X A N D A L L

C H A P T E R 3: Resonance and Wonder 42


STEPHEN GREENBLATT

C H A P T E R 4: T h e Poetics of Exhibition in Japanese


Culture 57
MASAO YAMAGUCHI

C H A P T E R 5: Anoth er Past, Another Context: Ex­


hibiting Indian Art Abroad 68
B. N. G O S W A M Y

P A R T 2: Art M u seums, N ational Identity, and the Statu s of


Mino r ity Cultures: The Case of H ispan ic Art in the
United States 79
S T E V E N D. L A V I N E
vi CONTENTS

CH A PTE R 6: Art Museums and the Ritual of


Citizenship 88
CAROL DUNCAN

C H A PTER 7: The Poetics a nd Politics of Hispa nic


Art: A New Perspective 104
JANE LIVINGSTON AND JOHN

BEARDSLEY

CHA PTER 8: Minorities and Fine-Arts Museums in


the United States 121
P E T E R C. M A R Z I O

C H A PTE R 9: The Chicano Movement/The Move­


ment of Chicano Art 128
TOMAS YB AR RA-FRAUSTO

P A R T 3: Museum Practices 151


STEVEN D . LAVINE

C H A PTE R 10: L ocating Authenticity: Fragments of


a Dialogue 159
S P E N C E R R. C R E W A N D J A M E S E. SI MS

C H A PTE R 11: Noodling Around with Exhibition


Opportunities 176
E L A I N E H E U M A N N G U R I AN

C H A PTE R «2: Always True to the Object, in Our


Fashion 191
SUSAN VOG EL

C H A P TE R 13: The Poetic Image and Native Amer­


ican Art 205
P A T R I C K T. H O U L I H A N

C H A PTE R 14: Four Northwest Coast Museums:


Travel Reflections 212
JAMES CLI FFORD
Contents vii

C H A P T E R 15: Why Museums M ake Me Sad 255


J A M E S A. B O O N

PART 4 Festivals 279


IVAN KARP

C H A P T E R 16: The Politics of Participation in Folk-


life Festivals 288
RICHARD BAU M AN A ND PATRICIA
SAWIN

C H A P T E R 17: Cultural Conservation through Rep­


resentation: Festival of Ind ia Folk-
life Exhibitions at the Smithsonian
Institution 315
RICHARD KURIN

C H A P T E R 18: The World as Marketplace: Com­


modification of the Exotic at the
World’s Columbian Exposition,
Chicago, 1893 344
C U R T I S M. H I N S L E Y

C H A P T E R 19: Festivals and Diplomacy 366


T E D M. G. T A N E N

PART 5 Other Cultures in Museu m Perspective 373


IVAN KARP

C H A P T E R 20: Objects of Ethnography 386


BARBARA KIRSHENBLATT-GIMBLETT

C H A P T E R 21: Refocusing or Reorientation? The


Exhibit or the Populace: Zimbabwe
on the Threshold 444
D A W S O N MUNJERI

C H A P T E R 22: How Misleading Does an Ethno­


graphical Museum Have to Be? 457

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