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

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.

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 Moore Stacks  AM7 .M8729 2006    Available  ---
Description xxii, 602 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-575) and index.
Contents 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
Subject Museums -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Museums -- Social aspects.
Museums -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
Museums -- Economic aspects.
Museums.
Museums -- Political aspects -- Congresses.
Museums -- Political aspects.
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Karp, Ivan.
Rockefeller Foundation.
ISBN 0822338785 cloth alkaline paper
9780822338789 cloth alkaline paper
0822338947 paperback alkaline paper
9780822338949 paperback alkaline paper