Museum frictions: public cultures/global transformations

Foreword / Lynn Szwaja and Tomas 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

1. 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

2. 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 / Cuauhtamoc Camarena and Teresa Morales

3. 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.