Museum Frictions

Public Cultures/Global Transformations

Author: Karp, Ivan; Kratz, Corinne A.; Szwaja, Lynn; Ybarra-Frausto, Tomas
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822338789
eISBN Pdf: 9780822388296
Place of publication: Durham , United States
Year of digital publication: 2006
Month: December
Pages: 632
DDC: 069
Language: English

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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.

Whether contrasting the transformation of Africa’s oldest museum, the South Africa Museum, with one of its newest, the Lwandle Migrant Labor Museum; offering an interpretation of the audio guide at the Guggenheim Bilbao; reflecting on the relative paucity of art museums in Peru and Cambodia; considering representations of slavery in the United States and Ghana; or meditating on the ramifications of an exhibition of Australian aboriginal art at the Asia Society in New York City, the contributors highlight the frictions, contradictions, and collaborations emerging in museums and heritage sites around the world. The volume opens with an extensive introductory essay by Ivan Karp and Corinne A. Kratz, leading scholars in museum and heritage studies.

Contributors. Tony Bennett, David Bunn, Gustavo Buntinx, Cuauhtémoc Camarena, Andrea Fraser, Martin Hall, Ivan Karp, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Corinne A. Kratz, Christine Mullen Kreamer, Joseph Masco, Teresa Morales, Howard Morphy, Ingrid Muan, Fred Myers, Ciraj Rassool, Vicente Razo, Fath Davis Ruffins, Lynn Szwaja, Krista A. Thompson, Leslie Witz, Tomás Ybarra-Frausto

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