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, Cuauhtemoc 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, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto
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