Museums and Source Communities: A Routledge Reader

This volume combines some of the most influential published research in this emerging field with newly commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved in collaborating museums and source communities.

Focusing on museums in the UK, North America and the Pacific, the book highlights three areas which demonstrate the new developments most clearly:

• the museum as field site or 'contact zone' - a place which source community members enter for purposes of consultation and collabor...