Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

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According to Wikipedia, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is a scholar of Performance and Jewish Studies and a museum professional. Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University, she is best known for her interdisciplinary contributions to Jewish studies and to the theory and history of museums, tourism, and heritage. She is currently the Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition and Advisor to the Director at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett's Published Works

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Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display (1991) (987)
Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage (1998) (703)
Intangible Heritage as Metacultural Production (2014) (360)
Intangible Heritage as Metacultural Production1 (2004) (285)
Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East Africa (1994) (253)
Playing to the Senses: Food as a Performance Medium (1999) (98)
World Heritage and Cultural Economics (2020) (96)
Folklore's Crisis (1998) (90)
The Corporeal Turn (2005) (82)
Exhibition, difference and the logic of culture (2006) (80)
The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times (2008) (61)
Spaces of Dispersal (1994) (60)
Speech play : research and resources for studying linguistic creativity (1976) (58)
Kodak Moments, Flashbulb Memories: Reflections on 9/11 (2003) (49)
A PARABLE IN CONTEXT: A SOCIAL INTERACTIONAL ANALYSIS OF STORYTELLING PERFORMANCE (1975) (46)
SOUNDS OF SENSIBILITY (1998) (45)
From Ethnology to Heritage: The Role of the Museum (2005) (36)
1. Play Languages: Implications for (Socio) Linguistics (1976) (31)
Art from Start to Finish (2006) (29)
4. Children's Traditional Speech Play and Child Language (1976) (29)
Art from Start to Finish: Jazz, Painting, Writing, and Other Improvisations (2008) (24)
Making sense of food in performance: the table and the stage (2012) (23)
6. Verbal Dueling in Chamula (1976) (23)
The Future of Folklore Studies in America: The Urban Frontier (1983) (23)
Getting Comfortable in New York: The American-Jewish Home, 1880-1950 (1991) (19)
Culture Ingested: On the Indigenization of Phillipine Food (2003) (18)
Towards a Post-Disciplinary Jewish Subject (2007) (17)
The Dematerialization of Culture and the De–accessioning of Museum Collections (2002) (17)
Folklorists in Public: Reflections on Cultural Brokerage in the United States and Germany (2000) (16)
Inside the Museum: Curating between hope and despair: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (2015) (12)
Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory (2012) (11)
Learning from ethnography: Reflections on the nature and efficacy of youth tours to Israel (2002) (10)
Imagining Europe: The Popular Arts of American Jewish Ethnography (2001) (9)
Image before my eyes : a photographic history of Jewish life in Poland, 1864-1939 (1977) (8)
A Theatre of History: 12 Principles (2015) (7)
IMAGE BEFORE MY EYES: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust (1994) (7)
The Ethnographic Burlesque (2002) (7)
Culture Shock and Narrative Creativity (1978) (7)
2. Secret Play Languages in Saramaka: Linguistic Disguise in a Caribbean Creole (1976) (7)
"Contraband:" Performance, Text and Analysis of a "Purim-Shpil" (1980) (6)
Di folkloristik: A Good Yiddish Word (1985) (6)
They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust (2007) (5)
Chapter 5. Performing the State: The Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair, 1939/40 (2008) (4)
The “ New Jews ” : Reflections on Emerging Cultural Practices (2005) (4)
Fabric of Jewish life : textiles from the Jewish Museum collection (1977) (4)
8. Saying Is Inventing: Gnomic Expressions in Molloy (1976) (3)
Introduction: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Joel Sherzer (1976) (3)
Kodak Moments, Flashbulb Memories (2003) (3)
Historical Space and Critical Museologies : POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (2016) (2)
New Jewish museums in post-communist Europe (2015) (2)
Alicia Rios: Tailor of the Body's Interior: An Interview (1997) (2)
Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (2010) (2)
Review of: Whispered Anecdotes: Humor from Behind the Iron Curtain, by Petr Beckmann (1970) (2)
By Means of Performance: Performance of precepts/precepts of performance: Hasidic celebrations of Purim in Brooklyn (1990) (2)
10. Bibliographic Survey of the Literature on Speech Play and Related Subjects (1976) (2)
3. Some Zinacanteco Joking Strategies (1976) (2)
Responses to "Choices Made and Unmade" (2001) (1)
The making of heritage. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Talks to Karolina J. Dudek and Sławomir Sikora (2015) (1)
Jewish children's museum a virtual roundtable on material religion (2007) (1)
Making history tangible: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw (2016) (1)
The Grand Generation: Folklore and the Culture of Aging (2006) (1)
Messages in a Bottle (2002) (1)
Reflections on Evoking History: Listening Across Cultures and Communities (2001) (1)
Anne Frank Unbound (2012) (1)
Max Gimblett: The Brush of All Things (2004) (1)
PLUNGING THE DEBTH OF THE PLUNGER (2006) (0)
' s Column : What ' s Wrong with These Terms ? A Conversation with (2005) (0)
7. How to Remember Numbers in Japanese (1976) (0)
Re-thinking Jewish Communities and Networks in an Age of Looser Connections Wurzweiler (2010) (0)
2015 Marshall Sklare Award Lecture—An Ethnographer in the Museum: Reflections from POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (2016) (0)
Tourism in New York City Introduction (1987) (0)
Man Sues over Warlock Charge (1969) (0)
Yivo Folksong Project: New York, Montreal, Toronto (1973) (0)
9. Directions for Future Research (1976) (0)
Review of: Studies in Jewish and World Folklore, by Haim Schwarzbaum (1969) (0)
East Africa: tourist performances and representations. (1987) (0)
Review of: Ephemeral Folk Figures: Scarecrows, Harvest Figures and Snowmen, by Neal Avon (1973) (0)
SEVEN. Imagining Europe: The Popular Arts of American Jewish Ethnography (2017) (0)
2015 Marshall Sklare Award Lecture—An Ethnographer in the Museum: Reflections from POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (2016) (0)
A Theatre of History. Twelve Principles (2020) (0)
Interview with Annette Weiner (2001) (0)
A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English. Compiled by Edith Fowke and Carole Henderson Carpenter (Toronto, Buffalo, London : University of Toronto Press, 1981. 272 pages. Includes index. ISBN 0-8020-2394-0.) (1983) (0)
Writing a modern Jewish history : essays in honor of Salo W. Baron (2006) (0)
Introduction (2007) (0)
Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association Volume 21 , No . 2 ( Winter 2007 ) A Message from the Chair (2007) (0)
AHR Conversation: Museums, History, and the Public in a Global Age (2019) (0)
Review of: Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes, by Lina Eckenstein (1969) (0)
6. The Shtetl Shoe: How to Make a Shoe (2008) (0)
Making history tangible (2016) (0)
Why Jewish Museums? An International Perspective (2013) (0)

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