Museum frictions : public cultures/global transformations / edited by Ivan Karp ... [and others] ; with Gustavo Buntinx, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, and Ciraj Rassool.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Karp, Ivan.
• Rockefeller Foundation.
• George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Museums--Social aspects--Congresses.
• Museums--Economic aspects--Congresses.
• Museums--Political aspects--Congresses.
• Globalization--Social aspects--Congresses.
• Globalization--Social aspects.
• Museum techniques--Congresses.
• Museum techniques.
• Museum exhibits--Congresses.
• Popular culture--Congresses.
• Popular culture.
• Culture diffusion--Congresses.
• Cultural pluralism--Congresses.
• Cultural pluralism.
• Culture diffusion.
• Museum exhibits.
• Museums--Political aspects.
• Museums.
• Museums--Economic aspects.
• Museums--Social aspects.

Genre:

• Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxii, 602 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Museum Frictions is the third volume in a bestselling series on culture, society, and museums. The first two volumes in the series, Exhibiting Cultures and Museums and Communities, have become defining books for those interested in the politics of museum display and heritage sites. Another classic in the making, Museum Frictions is a lavishly illustrated examination of the significant and varied effects of the increasingly globalized world on contemporary museum, heritage, and exhibition practice. The contributors-scholars, artists, and curators-present case studies drawn from Africa, Australia, North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Together they offer a multifaceted analysis of the complex roles that national and community museums, museums of art and history, monuments, heritage sites, and theme parks play in creating public cultures.

Contents:

• Preface: Museum Frictions: A Project History / Ivan Karp, Corinne A. Kratz xv
• Introduction: Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations / Corinne A. Kratz, Ivan Karp 1
• Part I Exhibitionary Complexes
• Exhibitionary Complexes / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 35
• Exhibition, Difference, and the Logic of Culture / Tony Bennett 46
• The Reappearance of the Authentic / Martin Hall 70
• Document: 5:29:45 AM / Joseph Masco 102
• Transforming Museums on Postapartheid Tourist Routes / Leslie Witz 107
• Isn't This a Wonderful Place? (A Tour of a Tour of the Guggenheim Bilbao) / Andrea Fraser 135
• World Heritage and Cultural Economics / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 161
• Document: The U.S. Department of Retro / The Onion 203
• Part 2 Tactical Museologies
• Tactical Museologies / Gustavo Buntinx, Ivan Karp 207
• Communities of Sense/Communities of Sentiment: Globalization and the Museum Void in an Extreme Periphery / Gustavo Buntinx 219
• Document: Declaration on the Importance and Value of Universal Museums 247
• Document: Art Museums and the International Exchange of Cultural Artifacts / Association of Art Museum Directors 250
• Document: Museo Salinas: A Proactive Space Within the Legal Frame, Some Words from the Director / Vicente Razo 253
• Musings on Museums from Phnom Penh / Ingrid Muan 257
• Community Museums, Memory Politics, and Social Transformation in South Africa: Histories, Possibilities, and Limits / Ciraj Rassool 286
• Community Museums and Global Connections: The Union of Community Museums of Oaxaca / Cuauhtemoc Camarena, Teresa Morales 322
• Part 3 Remapping the Museum
• Remapping the Museum / Corinne A. Kratz, Ciraj Rassool 347
• The Museum Outdoors: Heritage, Cattle, and Permeable Borders in the Southwestern Kruger National Park / David Bunn 357
• Document: Baghdad Lions to Be Relocated to South Africa 392
• Revisiting the Old Plantation: Reparations, Reconciliation, and Museumizing American Slavery / Fath Davis Ruffins 394
• Shared Heritage, Contested Terrain: Cultural Negotiation and Ghana's Cape Coast Castle Museum Exhibition "Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade" / Christine Mullen Kreamer 435
• Sites of Persuasion: Yingapungapu at the National Museum of Australia / Howard Morphy 469
• Document: Destroying While Preserving Junkanoo: The Junkanoo Museum in the Bahamas / Krista A. Thompson 500
• The Complicity of Cultural Production: The Contingencies of Performance in Globalizing Museum Practices / Fred Myers 504.

Notes:

• Papers from a series of meetings on museums and globalizing processes convened over the last six years by the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, and Bellagio, Italy.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages [537]-575) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

• 0822338785
• 9780822338789
• 0822338947
• 9780822338949

OCLC:

69734395

Online:

The George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund Home Page