Oaxaca at the Crossroads: Managing Memory, Negotiating Change

By Selma Holo

The role of museums in creating national and local cultural and political identities. This detailed examination focuses on the artists and museums of Oaxaca, Mexico: a city and province celebrated... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588341879
• ISBN13: 9781588341877
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Oaxaca Odyssey

Selma Holo's Oaxaca at the Crossroads is a fascinating look at how the locals in Oaxaca shape their cultural institutions and vice versa. For anyone interested in the art, history and politics of museums in Mexico, this book is an auspicious place to begin the journey. Holo investigates not only how community museums function at the community level, but how they influence and shape policy making at the national level. While this book is not for the faint of heart, it does promise to reward both the academic and lay person.