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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Researcher at New York University
Publications - 43
Citations - 3937
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is an academic researcher from New York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Judaism & Exhibition. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 43 publications receiving 3789 citations. Previous affiliations of Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett include Tisch School of the Arts & United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage
TL;DR: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett as mentioned in this paper explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, memorials, and tourist attractions.
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Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display
Ivan Karp,Steven D. Lavine,Svetlana Alpers,Michael Baxandall,Stephen Greenblatt,Maso Yamaguchi,B.n. Goswamy,Carol Duncan,John Beardsley,Jane Livingston,Peter C. Marzio,Tomas Ybarra-Frausto,Spencer R. Crew,James E. Sims,Elaine Heumann Gurian,Susan Vogel,Patrick T. Houlihan,James Clifford,James A. Boon,Richard Bauman,Patricia Sawin,Richard Kurin,Curtis M. Hinsley,Ted M. G. Tanen,Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett,Dawson Munjeri,Kenneth Huson +26 more
TL;DR: Exhibiting cultures as mentioned in this paper explores the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how cultural differences and art objects are displayed in museums, and examines how diverse settings have appealed to audiences and represented the intentions and cultures of the makers of objects.
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Intangible Heritage as Metacultural Production
TL;DR: In this article, the Intangible Heritage as Metacultural Production (IHMP) is presented as a Metaculture Production approach to the preservation of the IHMP.
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Intangible Heritage as Metacultural Production1: Intangible Heritage as Metacultural Production
TL;DR: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a world-renowned anthropologist, is a professor at the Performance Studies Department of the Tisch School of the Arts, New York, where she teaches the history and theory of museums, world fairs and tourism in conjunction with the school's Museum Studies programme as mentioned in this paper.
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Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East Africa
TL;DR: Mayers Ranch is a tourist attraction near Nairobi, privately owned by the Mayers, a British ex-colonist family who are now Kenyan citizens as mentioned in this paper, which features Maasai "tribal" dancing followed by tea and scones on the grounds.