Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display

Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors—museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology—represent a variety of stances on the role of museums and their function as intermediaries between the makers of art or artifacts and the eventual viewers.

• Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture
• Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations
• Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (First Peoples, New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
• The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao
• Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts
• Introduction to Museum Work, 3rd Edition (American Association for State and Local History)
• Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes: The Anthropology of Museums
• Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America
• Museums in Motion, 3rd Edition (American Association for State and Local History)
• The Changing Presentation of the American Indian: Museums and Native Cultures