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.

Museums--Economic aspects--Congresses.

Museums--Political aspects--Congresses.

Globalization--Social aspects--Congresses.

Globalization.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Museum techniques--Congresses.

Museum techniques.

Museum exhibits--Congresses.

Museum exhibits.

Popular culture--Congresses.

Popular culture.

Culture diffusion--Congresses.

Culture diffusion.

Cultural pluralism--Congresses.

Cultural pluralism.

Museums--Political aspects.

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