A few:



Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, edited by
Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington
and London

Museums and Communities, The Politics of Public Culture, edited by Ivan
Karp, Christine Mullen Kraemer, and Steven D. Lavine, Smithsonian
Institution Press, Washington and London (1992)

Museums and the Making of "Ourselves", The Role of Objects in National
Identity, edited by  Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan, Leicester University Press,
London and New York (1994)

J. Friedman: "The Past in the Future: History and the Politics of Identity"
in American Anthropologist, Volume 94, (4) 1992 pp. 837-859.

Museums, Media, Message edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Museum Meanings
Series, Routledge, 1995.





At 09:43 AM 11/30/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Can anyone suggest useful reading on the idea of a national museum: when
>was it invented, what has it meant to different countries at different
>times? Thanks for any advice.
>
>Steve Lubar
>National Museum of American History
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