Cultural Policy

Wacintanka (wah-cheenh-tanh-kah) defies single-word English translation. Ask a number of Lakota speakers and you will likely get a number of English translations: patience, persistence, endurance, and so forth. Condensed, I believe it means discipline and it can be quite a science. The science of Wacintanka. Sounds a bit like Tao Te Ching,^* doesn't it? I don't know much about Tao, but wacintanka is very diverse in its application and permeates all that is good in the Lakota way of being.

Between 2006 and 2008, the Social Impact of the Arts Project, a research group at the University of Pennsylvania (SIAP), collaborated with The Reinvestment Fund (TRF), a community development financial institution, on an investigation of the creative sector's potential contribution to neighborhood economic and community development.

2007, 124 pages. RAND Corporation, www.rand.org

www.ncarts.org/elements/docs/RAND%20Metropolis%2007%20includes%20Charlotte.pdf

aad.uoregon.edu/index.cfm?mode=culturework

CultureWork is an electronic publication of the University of Oregon Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy. Its mission is to provide timely workplace-oriented information on culture, the arts, education, and community.

2006, 196 pages. Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, NJ, 08540, (609) 258-4900, press.princeton.edu

2008, 214 pages. Published by Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue,
Piscataway, NJ, 08854, (732) 445-7762, www.rutgerspress.rutgers.edu

2007, 103 pages. University of New South Wales Press Ltd, Sydney, Australia www.unswpress.com.au (publisher); Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Paddington NSW (sponsor). Available through Hopkins Fulfillment Services, University of Washington Press, (800) 537-5487

2008, 328 pages. Published by University of California Press

2007, 246 pages. The New Press, 38 Greene St., NY, NY, 10013, (212) 629-8802, www.thenewpress.com

2007, 122 pages. RAND Corporation, 1200 South Hayes Street, Arlington, VA 22202, (703) 413-1100, www.rand.org
PDF online: www.rand.org