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Exhibitionary Complexes
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- Foreword xi
- Preface: Museum Frictions: A Project History xv
- Introduction: Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations 1
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PART 1 Exhibitionary Complexes
- Exhibitionary Complexes 35
- Exhibition, Difference, and the Logic of Culture 46
- The Reappearance of the Authentic 70
- DOCUMENT: 5:29:45 am 102
- Transforming Museums on Postapartheid Tourist Routes 107
- Isn’t This aWonderful Place? (A Tour of a Tour of the Guggenheim Bilbao) 135
- World Heritage and Cultural Economics 161
- DOCUMENT: The U.S. Department of Retro 203
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PART 2 Tactical Museologies
- Tactical Museologies 207
- Communities of Sense/Communities of Sentiment: Globalization and the Museum Void in an Extreme Periphery 219
- DOCUMENT: Declaration on the Importance and Value of Universal Museums 247
- DOCUMENT: Art Museums and the International Exchange of Cultural Artifacts 250
- DOCUMENT: Museo Salinas: A Proactive Space Within the Legal Frame, Some Words from the Director 253
- Musings on Museums from Phnom Penh 257
- Community Museums, Memory Politics, and Social Transformation in South Africa: Histories, Possibilities, and Limits 286
- Community Museums and Global Connections: The Union of Community Museums of Oaxaca 322
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PART 3 Remapping the Museum
- Remapping the Museum 347
- The Museum Outdoors: Heritage, Cattle, and Permeable Borders in the Southwestern Kruger National Park 357
- DOCUMENT: Baghdad Lions to Be Relocated to South Africa 392
- Revisiting the Old Plantation: Reparations, Reconciliation, and Museumizing American Slavery 394
- Shared Heritage, Contested Terrain: Cultural Negotiation and Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle Museum Exhibition ‘‘Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade’’ 435
- Sites of Persuasion: Yingapungapu at the National Museum of Australia 469
- DOCUMENT: Destroying While Preserving Junkanoo: The Junkanoo Museum in the Bahamas 500
- The Complicity of Cultural Production: The Contingencies of Performance in Globalizing Museum Practices 504
- Bibliography 537
- Contributors 577
- Index 583
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- Foreword xi
- Preface: Museum Frictions: A Project History xv
- Introduction: Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations 1
-
PART 1 Exhibitionary Complexes
- Exhibitionary Complexes 35
- Exhibition, Difference, and the Logic of Culture 46
- The Reappearance of the Authentic 70
- DOCUMENT: 5:29:45 am 102
- Transforming Museums on Postapartheid Tourist Routes 107
- Isn’t This aWonderful Place? (A Tour of a Tour of the Guggenheim Bilbao) 135
- World Heritage and Cultural Economics 161
- DOCUMENT: The U.S. Department of Retro 203
-
PART 2 Tactical Museologies
- Tactical Museologies 207
- Communities of Sense/Communities of Sentiment: Globalization and the Museum Void in an Extreme Periphery 219
- DOCUMENT: Declaration on the Importance and Value of Universal Museums 247
- DOCUMENT: Art Museums and the International Exchange of Cultural Artifacts 250
- DOCUMENT: Museo Salinas: A Proactive Space Within the Legal Frame, Some Words from the Director 253
- Musings on Museums from Phnom Penh 257
- Community Museums, Memory Politics, and Social Transformation in South Africa: Histories, Possibilities, and Limits 286
- Community Museums and Global Connections: The Union of Community Museums of Oaxaca 322
-
PART 3 Remapping the Museum
- Remapping the Museum 347
- The Museum Outdoors: Heritage, Cattle, and Permeable Borders in the Southwestern Kruger National Park 357
- DOCUMENT: Baghdad Lions to Be Relocated to South Africa 392
- Revisiting the Old Plantation: Reparations, Reconciliation, and Museumizing American Slavery 394
- Shared Heritage, Contested Terrain: Cultural Negotiation and Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle Museum Exhibition ‘‘Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade’’ 435
- Sites of Persuasion: Yingapungapu at the National Museum of Australia 469
- DOCUMENT: Destroying While Preserving Junkanoo: The Junkanoo Museum in the Bahamas 500
- The Complicity of Cultural Production: The Contingencies of Performance in Globalizing Museum Practices 504
- Bibliography 537
- Contributors 577
- Index 583