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""Museum Frictions" is a landmark publication which decenters the Western-centric bias of the existing literature. It shifts critical museology into a new register by challenging readers to think about the multiple ways that the globalization of a Western institution is transforming not only the dynamics of social interaction around the world but also the institutional nature of the museum itself."--Ruth B. Phillips, coeditor of "Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums, and Material Culture"

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MUSEUM FRICTIONS

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Contents

Foreword LYNN SZWAJA AND TOMS YBARRA-FRAUSTO.....................................................................................................................................................xvPreface: Museum Frictions: A Project History IVAN KARP AND CORINNE A. KRATZ.......................................................................................................................1PART 1 Exhibitionary Complexes.....................................................................................................................................................................35Exhibitionary Complexes BARBARA KIRSHENBLATT-GIMBLETT.............................................................................................................................................46Exhibition, Difference, and the Logic of Culture TONY BENNETT.....................................................................................................................................70The Reappearance of the Authentic MARTIN HALL.....................................................................................................................................................102DOCUMENT: 5:29:45 AM JOSEPH MASCO.................................................................................................................................................................107Transforming Museums on Postapartheid Tourist Routes LESLIE WITZ..................................................................................................................................135Isn't This a Wonderful Place? (A Tour of a Tour of the Guggenheim Bilbao) ANDREA FRASER...........................................................................................................161World Heritage and Cultural Economics BARBARA KIRSHENBLATT-GIMBLETT...............................................................................................................................203PART 2 Tactical Museologies........................................................................................................................................................................207Tactical Museologies GUSTAVO BUNTINX AND IVAN KARP................................................................................................................................................219Communities of Sense/Communities of Sentiment: Globalization and the Museum Void in an Extreme Periphery GUSTAVO BUNTINX..........................................................................247DOCUMENT: Declaration on the Importance and Value of Universal Museums.............................................................................................................................250DOCUMENT: Art Museums and the International Exchange of Cultural Artifacts ASSOCIATION OF ART MUSEUM DIRECTORS....................................................................................253DOCUMENT: Museo Salinas: A Proactive Space Within the Legal Frame, Some Words from the Director VICENTE RAZO......................................................................................257Musings on Museums from Phnom Penh INGRID MUAN....................................................................................................................................................286Community Museums, Memory Politics, and Social Transformation in South Africa: Histories, Possibilities, and Limits CIRAJ RASSOOL.................................................................322PART 3 Remapping the Museum........................................................................................................................................................................347Remapping the Museum CORINNE A. KRATZ AND CIRAJ RASSOOL...........................................................................................................................................357The Museum Outdoors: Heritage, Cattle, and Permeable Borders in the Southwestern Kruger National Park DAVID BUNN..................................................................................392DOCUMENT: Baghdad Lions to Be Relocated to South Africa............................................................................................................................................394Revisiting the Old Plantation: Reparations, Reconciliation, and Museumizing American Slavery FATH DAVIS RUFFINS...................................................................................435Shared Heritage, Contested Terrain: Cultural Negotiation and Ghana's Cape Coast Castle Museum Exhibition "Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade" CHRISTINE MULLEN KREAMER.....................469Sites of Persuasion: Yingapungapu at the National Museum of Australia HOWARD MORPHY...............................................................................................................500DOCUMENT: Destroying While Preserving Junkanoo: The Junkanoo Museum in the Bahamas KRISTA A. THOMPSON.............................................................................................504The Complicity of Cultural Production: The Contingencies of Performance in Globalizing Museum Practices FRED MYERS................................................................................537Bibliography.......................................................................................................................................................................................577Contributors.......................................................................................................................................................................................583

Chapter One

The term "exhibitionary complex" signals a nervous preoccupation with exhibition as a practice. In his 1988 formulation of the concept, Tony Bennett characterized the exhibitionary complex as a set of civic institutions whose goal was to encourage "new forms of civic self-fashioning on the part of newly enfranchised democratic citizenries." Taking shape in the nineteenth century, the exhibitionary complex included not only museums but also libraries, schools, and other places where popular schooling took place, such as galleries, arcades, department stores, and international expositions. In his contribution to this volume, Bennett has refined the concept to account for new modes of citizenship in the contemporary context of official policies of multiculturalism. Public museums, as we know them from their history in the United Kingdom and Australia, have become "'differencing machines' committed to the promotion of cross-cultural understanding, especially across divisions that have been racialized." Funded by the state and guided by official cultural policy, no matter how enlightened, public museums are by their nature governmental. For this reason, Bennett proposes that museums, while they are public spaces, should be distinguished from public spheres so as to better understand their intermediary role in public culture.

Reflecting on a wide range of museums, heritage sites, and themed attractions in Spain, South Africa, the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom, the essays in this section attempt to historicize contemporary museum practices and the exhibitionary complexes associated with...