Hi Dan, You might be interested in /Translating Museums: A Counterhistory of South Asian Museology/, by Shaila Bhatti (http://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=378). Although the author focuses specifically on the Lehore Museum in Pakistan, you can glean a lot about museums in non-Western societies in general through her in-depth case study. Here's a more lengthy description of the book: / //Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum. Bhatti thus presents an alternative example of visitor experience and museum practice to that of the West, which has been the dominant museological model to date. This examination of the Lahore Museum's objects, staff, and visitors (past and present) provides an informative case study that reveals local perceptions and uses of museums in non-Western societies to be fraught with social, political, and cultural implications and appropriations. Through Lahore, Bhatti examines the history of exchange between Britain and South Asia and advances our current understanding of what constitutes postcolonial museum interpretation and its public. / I'm happy to arrange for you to receive an exam copy if you'd like to consider it for your course. Please contact me off-list and we can exchange information. Best of luck - Stefania On 9/5/2012 2:29 PM, Dan Bartlett wrote: > Hi Folks: > > The students in my exhibits and museum education classes have begun to > take more of an interest in the behaviors and attitudes of museum and > cultural resource users in non-western settings. This would include > audience demographics and behavioral tendencies, but also attitudes > about cultural heritage sites and organizations. This may be a result > of the college's emphasis on intercultural competency and > international education. Regardless of the reason, can anyone suggest > readings or web sites in any language that might address these topics? > Has ICOM published anything? > > Thanks, > > Dan > > -- > Dan Bartlett > Curator of Exhibits and Education > Instructor of Museum Studies > Logan Museum of Anthropology > Beloit College > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the MUSEUM-L list, click the following link: > http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-HOME.exe?SUBED1=MUSEUM-L&A=1 > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com> > Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus Database: 2437/5250 - Release Date: 09/05/12 > -- Stefania R. Van Dyke Museum Studies & Practice Left Coast Press, Inc. [log in to unmask] Journal orders: 925-935-3380 phone; 925-935-2916 fax Book orders: 800-621-2736 / 773-702-7000 phone Book orders: 800-621-8476 / 773-702-7212 fax 1630 N. Main Street, #400 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 www.LCoastPress.com We are now distributed by the Chicago Distribution Center of University of Chicago Press Find us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeftCoastPress ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).