Museum Frictions:
Public Cultures/Global Transformations

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

EXHIBITIONARY COMPLEXES

Section Introduction
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Tony Bennett:
"Exhibition, Difference and the Logic of Culture"

Martin Hall:
"The Reappearance of the Authentic"

Document:
Joseph Masco:
"5:29:45 AM"

Leslie Witz:
"Transforming Museums on Post-Apartheid Tourist Routes"

Andrea Fraser:
"Isn't This a Wonderful Place? (A Tour of the Guggenheim Bilbao)"

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett:
"World Heritage and Cultural Economics"

Document:
"The U.S. Retro Department" (from "The Onion")

TACTICAL MUSEOLOGIES

Section Introduction
Gustavo Buntinx and Ivan Karp

Gustavo Buntinx:
"Communities of Sense/Communities of Sentiment: Globalization
and the Museum Void in an Extreme Periphery"

Documents:
"Declaration on the Importance and Value of Universal Museums"
(from "The Wall Street Journal")
Association of Art Museum Directors:
"Art Museums and the International Exchange of Cultural Artifacts"
Vicente Razo:
"Museo Salinas: A Proactive Space within the Legal Frame,
Some Words from the Director"

Ingrid Muan:
"Musings on Museums from Phnom Penh (Cambodia)"

Ciraj Rassool:
"Community Museums, Memory Politics and Social Transformation:
Histories, Possibilities, Limits"

Cuauhtémoc Camarena and Teresa Morales:
"Community Museums and Global Connections:
The Union of Community Museums of Oaxaca"

REMAPPING THE MUSEUM

Section Introduction
Corinne A. Kratz and Ciraj Rassool

David Bunn:
"The Museum Outdoors: Heritage, Cattle, and the Permeable Borders
in the South Western Kruger National Park"

Document:
Sahm Venter:
"Repatriating Baghdad Animals to South Africa"

Fath Davis Ruffins:
"Revisiting the Old Plantation: Reparations, Reconciliation,
and Museumizing American Slavery

Christine Mullen Kreamer
"Shared Heritage, Contested Terrain: Cultural Negotiation and Ghana's Cape Coast Castle Museum Exhibition, Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade"

Howard Morphy:
"Sites of Persuasion:
Yingapungapu at the National Museum of Australia"

Document:
Krista Thompson
"Destroying While Preserving Junkanoo: The Junkanoo Musem in the Bahamas"

Fred Myers:
"The Complicity of Cultural Production: The Contingencies of
Performance in Globalizing Museum Practices"

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