Presenting "The Other" – Dilemmas for ethnographic museum

Discussing something within the academic world and addressing a lay audience (the general public visiting museums) are different things. In the formor knowledge and being 'aux fait' with the ongoing theoretical debate can be taken for granted. In the latter, nothing can be taken as given. Focusing on exhibitions as a medium for conveying insights into other ways of ordering life, the inherent possibilities and restraints are discussed, as is the problem of 'voice', i.e. who speaks for whom. Finally a case is made for an inclusive 'we' rather than the divisive 'us' and 'them '.