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                      H42.1041/Spring 1995

                  Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

                BOOKS ORDERED AT NYU BOOK CENTER


REQUIRED:

Bauman
Linenthal
MacCannell
Schivelbusch

ADDITIONS to recommended list:

Behdad, Belated Travelers (Duke)
Bennett, The Birth of the Museum (Routledge)
Duncan, Civilizing Rituals (Routledge)
Fisher, The Making and Effacing of Art (Harvard)
Greenhill-Hooper, Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge
(Routledge)

Required readings from Boorstin, Connerton, Karp and Lavine,
Snow, and possibly
others.

Recommended books serve also as the basis for assignment to write
a review essay based on three books on this list.
 
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*Bauman, Richard. 1992. Reflections on the Folklife Festival:  An
Ethnography of Participant Experience. Bloomington: Folklore
Institute, Indiana University. 
 
Boorstin, J. 1964. The Image:  A Guide to Pseudo-Events in
America. New York: Harper Colophon. 
 
Connerton, P. 1989. How Societies Remember. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. 
 
Crimp, D. 1993. On the Museum's Ruins. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
Press. 

Dorst, J. 1989. The Written Suburb:  An American Site, An
Ethnographic Dilemma. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press. 
 
Fabian, J. 1983. Time and the Other:  How Anthropology Makes Its
Object. New York: Columbia University Press. 
 
Handler, R. 1988. Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in
Quebec. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 
 
Hufford, Mary, ed. 1994. Conserving Culture: A New Discourse on
Heritage.Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press for the
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. 
 
Karp, Ivan, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven D. Lavine, eds.
1992. Museums and Communities:  The Politics of Public
Culture.Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. 
 
Karp, Ivan, and Steven D. Lavine, eds. 1991. Exhibiting Cultures:
The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display.Washington, D.C.:
Smithsonian Institution Press. 
 
Leon, Warren, and Roy Rosenzweig, eds. 1989. History Museums in
the United States:  A Critical Assessment.Urbana: University of
Illinois Press. 
 
Linenthal, E. T. 1995. Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create
America's Holocaust Museum. New York: Viking. 
 
Lowenthal, D. 1985. The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press. 
 
MacCannell, D. 1976. The Tourist. New York: Schocken . 
 
Mitchell, T. 1991. Colonising Egypt. Los Angeles: University of
California Press. 
 
Mitchell, W. J. 1995. City of Bits: Space, Place, and the
Infobahn. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 
 
Ness, Sally Ann. 1992. Body, Movement, and Culture:  Kinesthetic
and Visual Symbolism in a Philippine Community.Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press. 
 
Samuel, R. 1994. Theatres of Memory. New York: Verso. 
 
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. 1986. The Railway Journey:  The
Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century.Berkeley:
University of California Press. 
 
Sears, J. F. 1989. Sacred Places:  American Tourist Attractions
in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press. 
 
Snow Steven. 1993. Performing the Pilgrims:  A Study in
Ethnohistorical Role Playing at Plimoth Plantation. Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi. 
 
Uzzell, David L., ed. 1989. Heritage Interpretation, Volume 1,
The Natural and Built Environment.London: Belhaven Press. 
 
---, ed. 1989. Heritage Interpretation, Volume 2, The Visitor
Experience.London: Belhaven Press. 
 
Virilio, P. 1991. The Aesthetics of Disappearance. New York:
Semiotext(e). 
 
Zelinksy, W. 1988. Nation into State:  The Shifting Symbolic
Foundations of American Nationalism. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press.